'goto" gone from computer languages or is it!
Lyle Bickley
lbickley at bickleywest.com
Fri May 13 18:22:37 CDT 2005
On Friday 13 May 2005 14:37, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
> From: "Lyle Bickley" <lbickley at bickleywest.com>
> ---snip---
> The first sentence in
>
> >the final paragraph reads: "The moral of this discussion is that writing
> > code which depends on order of evaluation is a bad programming practice
> > in any language."
> >
> >I'll buy that.
>
> Hi
> Interesting! I've always considered order of execution
> to be one of the fundamentals of being able to predict
> what a computer does. I've always thought of it as
> an accentual part of programming with predictable results.
> Each to their own I say.
> Dwight
The section (and prior discussion) was related to writing code dependent on a
compilers interpretation of order - as opposed to the programmers purposeful
order.
Lyle
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