Re: Infinite Loops and Explicit Exits

From: Lueko Willms (l.willms_at_jpberlin.de)
Date: 11/09/04


Date: 09 Nov 2004 17:21:00 GMT


. Am 09.11.04
 schrieb howard@brazee.net (Howard Brazee)
     bei /COMP/LANG/COBOL
      in cmqmfa$52r$1@peabody.colorado.edu
   ueber Re: Infinite Loops and Explicit Exits

>> Other languages have all those safeguards built in. It is simply not
>> possible to accidentally drop thru the end of a procedure or function.

HB> Some other languages.

   With different advantages and disadvantages.

HB> Other languages (C) leave you much more exposed.

   Not in the area of program flow, but thow by the possibility to
create new variables on the fly hidden somewhere between procedural
statements, what is not possible in COBOL.

   But there is no chance to fall through the end of a function
declared in C, and accidentally start executing the next function.

Yours,
Lüko Willms http://www.mlwerke.de
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