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From: Kai_Henningsen@ms.maus.de (Kai Henningsen)
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Subject: Re: Reference Semantics
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Date: 18 Jun 91 01:07:00 GMT
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William F Ogden ogden @ seal.cis.ohio-state.edu schrieb am Di 11.06.1991,
19:15

WF>Somehow I'm getting this deja vu sensation that we're back in the late 60's
WF>discussing Go To's. One side is saying that Go To's (object references) have
[...]

Hey, maybe the answer is the same: retain GOTO (object references) for those
cases that really need them/are better understandable with them/whatever, but
consider that the exceptional case and use "higher level" constructions like
loops (copy-on-write-semantics? :-)) whenever possible, thus even allowing the
compiler to try better optimizations ... and of course we can still use good
old sequential programming (value semantics) for those trivial cases that make
the dull 90% part of the work (like good ol' integer math) ...
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