From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11390f,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid11390f,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: Martin M Dowie Subject: Re: Programming language vote - results Date: 1997/11/24 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 292584980 Distribution: world X-NNTP-Posting-Host: dowie-cs.demon.co.uk [193.237.34.207] References: <343fbb5a.0@news.iprolink.ch> <34466EB4.3381@dynamite.com.au> <6275dt$agm$3@news.on> <344BCED0.2D51@dynamite.com.au> <62tpap$7gh$1@darla.visi.com> <3470EF6E.F74@lysator.liu.se> <879863453snz@genesis.demon.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.apl,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1997-11-24T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <879863453snz@genesis.demon.co.uk>, Lawrence Kirby writes >In article <3470EF6E.F74@lysator.liu.se> > ingemar@lysator.liu.se "Ingemar Ragnemalm" writes: > >... >Perhaps you could give an example of something that is used more than once >in a blue moon? C supports goto. It is rarely used in practice but there >are some situations where it is simply the best approach. i've heard many people use this "where it is simply the best approach" 'reason' - care to given an example? and please don't say to stop doing one thing quickly in order to do another - that is simply indicative of a poorly analysed and designed system. Ada also supports a 'goto' statement (though with much tighter controls) but the only valid reason i've ever come across for using it is for automated code generators. -- Martin M Dowie