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From: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Re: Breaking out of several nested l
Message-ID: <450@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 31-Oct-84 13:48:30 EST
Article-I.D.: ncoast.450
Posted: Wed Oct 31 13:48:30 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 2-Nov-84 05:31:40 EST
References: <200@dataio.UUCP> <7200001@hpdsa.UUCP>
Reply-To: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Organization: North Coast XENIX, Cleveland
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Summary: I STILL think ``structure'' can be overdone.

> Article <7200001@hpdsa.UUCP>, from decot@hpdsa.UUCP (decot)
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| If you have several nested loops, put the one you want out of (and everything
| within) into a new function, and use "return" to get out.  It will probably
| be clearer to the reader, too.
| 
| Dave Decot  hpda!decot

I hate to tell you, but some of us have to program in the real world.
I've found that for myself and most people I know, the use of C functions
is to mark the ``main'' working components of the program, and using
them to ``modularize'' loop bodies can become even more unreadable than
totally unstructured programming (you can't easily tell that the function
is a loop body).

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