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From: Richard Bos on 27 Apr 2010 10:07 "Daniel T." <daniel_t(a)earthlink.net> wrote: [ Quoting Dijkstra's "Goto considered harmful": ] > The unbridled use of the go to statement This is the one thing which Dijkstra's editor (who wrote that headline), the War-On-Goto lobby, and even Dijkstra himself in later years, seem to have missed. _Unbridled_. The unbridled use of salt is also deadly to humans. We must ban it outright. Richard (takes a little salt, not a lot)
From: Keith H Duggar on 27 Apr 2010 10:25 On Apr 27, 10:07 am, ralt...(a)xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) wrote: > "Daniel T." <danie...(a)earthlink.net> wrote: > > [ Quoting Dijkstra's "Goto considered harmful": ] > > > The unbridled use of the go to statement > > This is the one thing which Dijkstra's editor (who wrote that headline), > the War-On-Goto lobby, and even Dijkstra himself in later years, seem to > have missed. > > _Unbridled_. > > The unbridled use of salt is also deadly to humans. We must ban it > outright. > > Richard (takes a little salt, not a lot) Indeed. Unbridled water drinking can be fatal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication Pure water is dangerous and highly concentrated being 55 molar. Water kills more than a million people per year, half of them children! How can anyone stand for the unbridled use of water. KHD
From: Juha Nieminen on 27 Apr 2010 14:34 In comp.lang.c++ Alexei A. Frounze <alexfrunews(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Now, let's consider C (or C++ where this function has to explicitly > free up some used resources or do some other cleanup). The objects > won't get freed here automatically by the magic of the destructor call > generated for you by the C++ compiler. Make a wild guess what is one of the reasons I don't like C.
From: Juha Nieminen on 27 Apr 2010 14:35 In comp.lang.c++ spinoza1111 <spinoza1111(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > On Apr 25, 1:09�pm, Juha Nieminen <nos...(a)thanks.invalid> wrote: >> In comp.lang.c++ Ali Karaali <ali...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > I use goto to break nested for loops and I can't see a >> > reason to ban goto. >> >> � No. The correct keyword for breaking out of nested loops (in C++) is >> 'return'. If you are using 'goto' for that purpose, you are doing it >> wrong. > > Don't you mean "break"? Exactly how do you exit out of a set of nested loops with a "break"?
From: Juha Nieminen on 27 Apr 2010 14:37
In comp.lang.c++ Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demunged(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > This is a purely religious point of view. > > One should never flaunt ones lack of experience in order to back up > ones argument. I prefer "a purely religious point of view" over insulting a person you don't know anything about. |