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On 04/26/2012 02:41 PM, Mart van de Wege wrote:
>
> That's a bit silly. I happen to write very readable Perl; given that
> other people have no problems maintaining or even extending my code, I
> can say that.

That's a bit silly. People have maintained and extended code in every language; 
that doesn't mean all such code is readable.

> In the end, using if blocks and a goto is the same thing as using a
> dedicated loop control construct. I just find it an affront to my
> impression of Ada as an elegant language. In my personal opinion, it
> just *feels* clunky.

A go-to is not the correct solution to these cases; neither is a "next" statement.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"I'm a kike, a yid, a heebie, a hook nose! I'm Kosher,
Mum! I'm a Red Sea pedestrian, and proud of it!"
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