From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: Why no named case statements?
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2009 08:44:46 -0400
Date: 2009-09-06T08:44:46-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wccfxb0cke9.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1doe3xrcrqyeh.101b6gamg91bj.dlg@40tude.net
"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
> Ada has labels:
>
> <<Decide_This>>
> case Some_Variable is
> ...
> end case;
>
> <<Decide_That>>
> if Whatever then
> ...
> end if:
I prefer comments:
-- Decide this.
case Some_Variable is
...
end case;
-- Decide that.
if Whatever then
...
end if:
To me, a label is a warning that gotos are lurking around the place.
- Bob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-06 12:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-04 23:06 Why no named case statements? Britt Snodgrass
2009-09-04 23:47 ` Adam Beneschan
2009-09-05 0:29 ` Robert A Duff
2009-09-05 0:49 ` Adam Beneschan
2009-09-05 1:04 ` Robert A Duff
2009-09-05 8:18 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2009-09-06 12:44 ` Robert A Duff [this message]
2009-09-06 17:46 ` Britt
2009-09-07 7:27 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
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