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From: Aidan Skinner <aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: How to implement a continue statement in Ada?
Date: 2000/02/10
Date: 2000-02-10T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3emalfpj1.fsf@skinner.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87s8s3$aai1@news.cis.okstate.edu

dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner) writes:

> On 08 Feb 2000 22:28:08 +0000, Aidan Skinner <aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> >I would expect this case to be picked up by the compiler, without the
> >need for an explicit goto. Was there a reason why the appropriate

> GNAT didn't recognize it as tail recursion, so the non-recursive
> version performed better with certain (pathological) code. I'd

Having just tried a simple example, it doesn't recognise this at
all. I'm a bit surprised by this TBH...

> tail recursion than GNAT, as it's not important for most Ada
> programs.

I don't know, I use it quite a lot in libra, mostly in the data
structures (a lot of the code which walks through the strucutres uses
tail recursion).

It's probably over-used though, so I may change it...

- Aidan
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  reply	other threads:[~2000-02-10  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-02-08  0:00 How to implement a continue statement in Ada? Oliver Kellogg
2000-02-08  0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-02-09  0:00   ` Roger Barnett
2000-02-08  0:00 ` David Starner
2000-02-08  0:00   ` Aidan Skinner
2000-02-09  0:00     ` David Starner
2000-02-10  0:00       ` Aidan Skinner [this message]
2000-02-12  0:00       ` Character vs. String comparisons (was: Re: How to implement a continue statement in Ada?) Jeff Carter
2000-02-12  0:00         ` David Starner
2000-02-09  0:00     ` How to implement a continue statement in Ada? Ted Dennison
2000-02-12  0:00       ` Jeff Carter
2000-02-14  0:00       ` Oliver Kellogg
     [not found] <35EA8153.7BFC91E3@physics.purdue.edu>
1998-08-31  0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-08-31  0:00   ` Robert T. Sagris
1998-09-01  0:00     ` Matthew Heaney
1998-08-31  0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1998-09-01  0:00 ` alan walkington
1998-09-02  0:00   ` Dr Richard A. O'Keefe
1998-09-02  0:00     ` alan walkington
1998-09-02  0:00     ` Matthew Heaney
1998-09-03  0:00     ` dewarr
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1998-08-31  0:00 Robert T. Sagris
1998-09-01  0:00 ` dewarr
1998-09-01  0:00 ` Dr Richard A. O'Keefe
1998-09-01  0:00   ` dewarr
1998-09-03  0:00     ` Dr Richard A. O'Keefe
1998-09-03  0:00       ` dennison
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