C style
Judge Dredd
days at glasgow.glasgow.UUCP
Sat Oct 5 00:07:07 AEST 1985
> Some of us feel the same about breaks as we do about gotos. I won't use it, or
> continue either, and I won't let anyone in my shop use it. It is just a goto
Why use a language if you dislike it ?? (-:
> We use LOOP...LOOPUNTIL...ENDLOOP. I know, adding features to a language with
> #define has problems,but at least that code is readable once you know what the
> constructs do, which is quite apparent. C should have that structure built in.
Well, continue/break are also perfectly apparent once you know what they
do, and if C had everything that everyone wanted, we'd be left with something
that made York Ada look like tiny-P.
--
Stephen Day, Comp Sci Dept, University of Glasgow, Scotland
seismo!mcvax!ukc!glasgow!days If time were like a treacle bun,
I would enjoy it so,
But now it seems it's on the run,
I'd really better go.
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