Re: Perform loop enhancements

From: Peter Lacey (lacey_at_mb.sympatico.ca)
Date: 10/29/04

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    Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 21:47:02 -0500

    Richard wrote:
    >
    > Peter Lacey <lacey@mb.sympatico.ca> wrote
    >
    > > Seems to me you're adhering to a principle at the expense of
    > > simplicity. If you have two different types of your exit
    > > paragraph/perform, and both of them are exactly equivalent to a GOTO -
    > > why not use a GOTO? Then there'd be no question as to which type of
    > > exit you're doing, nor would there be any doubt as to where control
    > > resumes.
    >
    > This seems to be the trigger for where I do my usual discourse on "it
    > isn't the GOTO that is harmful, it is the label that it requires that
    > is the probelem", but I won't.

    Good, I suppose. Why bother composing this? Ranting about the label
    wouldn't address the subject.

    PL

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