'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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