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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: What would you like in Ada202X?
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Date: 2012-04-25T21:41:33-05:00
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"Adam Beneschan" <adam@irvine.com> wrote in message 
news:18684452.720.1335395636464.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@yncc41...
...
>I suppose this is a YMMV matter; maybe other programmers wouldn't have as 
>much trouble
> reading and maintaining this kind of code.  But since it's definitely 
> something that caused me
> problems, I wanted to make sure I mentioned it.  And I'm still skeptical 
> of any coding standard
> that bans "goto" but not "continue"; I'd suspect that the person who came 
> up with that standard
> did so because they heard somewhere that goto was evil, demonic, and 
> fattening, not for any
> rational reason.

We made a concious decision to ignore arguments about coding standards 
(clueless or not), because many of those rules are based on misinformation 
(or out-of-date information -- something I will say probably happens to me 
from time-to-time). We do, however, care about programmer expectations 
(which is why there is no "continue", why we added conditional expressions 
rather than an "implies" operator, and so on).

And thanks for the clear explanation of why this is a bad idea (I think 
yours was clearer than any we had when we rejected the idea).

                                  Randy.