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- From: kers@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Chris Dollin)
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 08:14:15 GMT
- Subject: Re: Re: GOTO, was: Tiny proposal for named loops.
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- In article ... kers@hplb.hpl.hp.com (me!) writes:
-
- [various things taking Bob Martin to task for ``proven that these rules are
- always workable'']
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- I forgot to add that, despite my remarks, I am rabidly anti-goto, and that my
- intention was not to support GOTOs as an everyday programming tool, but to
- point out that there are useful, understandable control structures other than
- the Holy Trinity of structured programming.
-
- Perhaps I should have had my tea first.
- --
-
- Regards, | "If taking devious pains was a sign of laziness, he was quite
- Kers. | prepared to call Hazelton the laziest man alive." Blish (m-o-l)
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