From: Aidan Skinner <aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: How to implement a continue statement in Ada?
Date: 2000/02/08
Date: 2000-02-08T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ya8v1g93.fsf@skinner.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87pmrq$9ae1@news.cis.okstate.edu
dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner) writes:
> I disagree with that rule. The goto statement is the most
> powerful control structure, and judiciously used, is
> very useful. My most recent use of a goto was to emulate
> tail recursion. Does that mean that Ada needs a tail
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
section of code couldn't be put into a (possibly nested) procedure and
recurse itself?
- Aidan
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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 [this message]
2000-02-09 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-02-12 0:00 ` Jeff Carter
2000-02-14 0:00 ` Oliver Kellogg
2000-02-09 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
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
[not found] <35EA8153.7BFC91E3@physics.purdue.edu>
1998-08-31 0:00 ` How to implement a continue statement in Ada? 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 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-09-02 0:00 ` alan walkington
1998-09-03 0:00 ` dewarr
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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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