Re: "GOTO considered harmful" considered harmful. Re: New style DO syntax?

glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
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PASCAL has numeric labels, as I understand it, to discourage
their use. [...]

Actually, it wasn't that they were numeric but that they were
required to be separately declared that was intended to restrict
their use. Further, the only permitted use of labels was branch
targets and not to label block delimiters. If that latter use was
encouraged, and the language helped navagation by requiring
labels to be in order, that might have been a significant help
to programmers.

--
J. Giles

"I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a software
design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously
no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated
that there are no obvious deficiencies." -- C. A. R. Hoare


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