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From: Aidan Skinner <aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: How to implement a continue statement in Ada?
Date: 2000/02/08
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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?

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