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From: days@glasgow.glasgow.UUCP (Judge Dredd)
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Subject: Re: C style
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Date: Fri, 4-Oct-85 10:07:07 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  4 10:07:07 1985
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> Some of us feel the same about breaks as we do about gotos. I won't use it, or
> continue either, and I won't let anyone in my shop use it. It is just a goto
	Why use a language if you dislike it ?? (-:

> We use LOOP...LOOPUNTIL...ENDLOOP. I know, adding features to a language with
> #define has problems,but at least that code is readable once you know what the
> constructs do, which is quite apparent. C should have that structure built in.
	Well, continue/break are also perfectly apparent once you know what they
do, and if C had everything that everyone wanted, we'd be left with something
that made York Ada look like tiny-P.

-- 
Stephen Day, Comp Sci Dept, University of Glasgow, Scotland

seismo!mcvax!ukc!glasgow!days		If time were like a treacle bun,
					I would enjoy it so,
					But now it seems it's on the run,
					I'd really better go.