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Re: Multi- Occurrence Data Structure

On 12/12/2007, James Lampert <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Maybe GOTO, given that there are more elegant ways to, for example,
leave a loop prematurely (something that was left out of that paragon of
structure, Pascal, because Wirth somehow couldn't imagine situations in
which a premature exit was normal, but completion indicated an error --
like he'd never done a table-lookup?).

But ITER and LEAVE are really GOTO in a cage. They are extremely
useful for practical programming but they are in a sense dirty tools
that violate the idea of a single exit and entry point.


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