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From: joel@decwrl.DEC.COM (Joel McCormack)
Newsgroups: net.lang.pascal
Subject: Pascal and GOTO statements
Message-ID: <4369@decwrl.DEC.COM>
Date: Wed, 23-Jul-86 23:34:23 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 23 23:34:23 1986
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Organization: DEC Western Software Lab, Palo Alto, CA
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Keywords: Pascal GOTO


I knew sooner or later someone was going to complain about using GOTO in
Pascal.

Pascal is severely handicapped by the non-definition of boolean expression
evaluation, as well as the lack of a general loop construct.

I used to use dummy boolean variables to get around these problems.  After
programming in Modula-2 awhile, I decided that the dummy booleans obscured
the code more that a simple GOTO did.

In any case, Niklaus has defined Modula-2, so I consider discussions like
this moot.  If you want to complain, at least complain about what Modula-2
can't do; discussions of Pascal's problems are out of date.

-- 
- Joel McCormack {ihnp4 decvax ucbvax allegra}!decwrl!joel
		 joel@decwrl.arpa