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From: marsh@linus.UUCP (Ralph Marshall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: problems/risks due to programming language
Message-ID: <100105@linus.UUCP>
Date: 5 Mar 90 14:05:46 GMT
References: <6960@internal.Apple.COM> <1004@micropen> <16078@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Reply-To: marsh@mingus.UUCP (Ralph Marshall 617 271-8784)
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, Bedford MA
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In article <16078@haddock.ima.isc.com> karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes:
>In article <1004@micropen> dave@micropen (David F. Carlson) writes:
>>What break does is *very* well defined and is no more prone to
>>misinterpretation that any other non-linear control flow statement ...
>
>Yes, it's well defined, but what it's defined to do is bad.

Folks,
	Edit the newsgroups line!  This thread keeps appearing in
comp.lang.lisp, and we all know that since Lisp doesn't contain any
design flaws that could trap the unwary programmer, we don't need to
see it here...

Ralph Marshall
marsh@linus.mitre.org