Re: Local vs global variables in ADA

[Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>]

Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> writes:

>         As it is, I only used "goto" in constructs where the destination was 
> before the goto (as anyone reading the code should have seen the target 
> already, and not have to search). ...

Hmm.  I have always believed just the opposite: that gotos that jump
forward (and outward) are easier to understand that gotos that jump
backward (and therefore form a loop).

For example, I did a lot of Pascal programming a long time ago, and I
don't think I *ever* wrote a backward-jumping goto.  But I wrote quite a
few loop-exiting gotos (since Pascal doesn't have Ada's "exit" or
"return").  And quite a few "while True do...", since Pascal doesn't
have Ada's plain "loop".

- Bob