Author: Johan de Koning
Date: 22:36:17 10/30/03
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On October 30, 2003 at 09:44:48, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On October 29, 2003 at 13:39:03, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >>It's like saying using 'goto' is ok in a programming environment. Where this is >>certainly true, it should not be a policy to do so :) > >Eh? _every_ program you write has goto's. (aka jumps). They are not >bad. In fact, they are _unavoidable_. OT1: They *are* avoidable. Any finite algorithm that does not depend on mid-execution input (typically time) can be written as 1 single expression. It would of course be huge and run rather slowly without quantum computing. OT2: You *know* what he means. There's no need to remove the quotes around 'goto' and change the subject, just to contradict. BTW: this isn't personal. In fact I'd advice *everyone* not to contradict Vincent. That would halve the posting volume, i.e. raising the signal/noise by 6 dB. :-) ... Johan
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