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From: rjh@cs.purdue.EDU (Bob Hathaway)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Ada and the infamous goto
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Date: 19 Jan 89 01:48:05 GMT
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>   Speaking of the non-goto rationale behind Ada, can anyone tell me
>   why Ada has a goto statement??  (See LRM 5.9...)  The Rationale for 
>   the Design of Ada conveniently fails to discuss it.

Modula-2 doesn't have a goto statement and I've never missed it.
I recommend removing the goto in Ada also.   There is no high-order
justification and goto's complicate code generation and optimization.

Bob Hathaway
rjh@purdue.edu