From: yeung@reed.edu (Woodrow Yeung)
Subject: Re: GOTO considered necessary
Date: 1997/07/09
Date: 1997-07-09T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yeung-ya02408000R0907970151100001@news.apple.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.866852335@merv
In article <dewar.866852335@merv>, dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wrote:
> <<Goto's should not be used to fake continues.
>
> Woody Yeung>>
>
>
> See, Sam, there are plenty of dogmatic folks around on this issue, so I
> think it is clear that your write up is worth the effort!!!
Dogmatic? I gave pretty good reasons against it as a continue. I guess I
must be dogmatic about not using goto's to jump to the next statement too.
[Robert Dewar from previous post]
> There are many places where a goto is the natural and clearest way of doing
> things.
You seem pretty dogmatic about using gotos. I suppose you have to dogmatic
to be programming in Ada in the first place. ;-)
Woody Yeung
PS I should have said MODERN HLL. Break is broken in C, you need a goto
to break from a while/switch.
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-06-06 0:00 GOTO considered necessary Samuel Mize
1997-06-06 0:00 ` Michel Gauthier
1997-06-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-17 0:00 ` Woodrow Yeung
1997-06-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-09 0:00 ` Woodrow Yeung [this message]
1997-06-23 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1997-06-07 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1997-06-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-17 0:00 ` GOTO considered necessary (FSAs) Nick Roberts
1997-06-09 0:00 ` GOTO considered necessary Anonymous
1997-06-09 0:00 ` Wolfgang Gellerich
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