Xref: utzoo comp.lang.eiffel:1642 comp.object:3685 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!ccu.umanitoba.ca!herald.usask.ca!alberta!aunro!ukma!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!seal.cis.ohio-state.edu!ogden From: ogden@seal.cis.ohio-state.edu (William F Ogden) Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.object Subject: Re: Reference Semantics Message-ID: <133169@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 11 Jun 91 19:55:41 GMT References: <131691@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <1181@tetrauk.UUCP> <1991Jun10.215822.28034@m.cs.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Followup-To: comp.lang.eiffel Organization: The Ohio State University, Department of Computer and Information Science Lines: 12 In article <1991Jun10.215822.28034@m.cs.uiuc.edu> johnson@cs.uiuc.EDU (Ralph Johnson) writes: ... >Improper use of references can certainly cause problems, but >improper use of anything can cause problems. Improper use of GoTo's can certainly cause problems also, but we don't use them much any more. We observed that there was a problem and that there were efficient alternatives, and we changed our ways. -- /Bill