Re: [fpc-pascal] Legitimate use of for and break

2023-06-20 Thread Steve Litt via fpc-pascal
Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal said on Tue, 20 Jun 2023 14:05:04 +0700 >> On Jun 20, 2023, at 1:10 PM, Steve Litt via fpc-pascal >> wrote: >> >> I can still make a good argument for what my professors taught me, >> but in the intervening years, I found break and especially continue >> wonderful

Re: [fpc-pascal] Legitimate use of for and break

2023-06-20 Thread Dennis Lee Bieber via fpc-pascal
On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 14:05:04 +0700, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal declaimed the following: > >Educators continuously have stupid ideas that don't work out as intended in >the real world. I would love to see them make a real program that does >something difficult and not use early breaks. > >I

Re: [fpc-pascal] Legitimate use of for and break

2023-06-20 Thread Giuliano Colla via fpc-pascal
Il 20/06/2023 09:05, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal ha scritto: Educators continuously have stupid ideas that don't work out as intended in the real world. I would love to see them make a real program that does something difficult and not use early breaks. I assume them they forbid early exits

Re: [fpc-pascal] Legitimate use of for and break

2023-06-20 Thread Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal
> On Jun 20, 2023, at 1:10 PM, Steve Litt via fpc-pascal > wrote: > > I can still make a good argument for what my professors taught me, but > in the intervening years, I found break and especially continue > wonderful for increasing readability. Educators continuously have stupid ideas

Re: [fpc-pascal] Legitimate use of for and break

2023-06-20 Thread Steve Litt via fpc-pascal
Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal said on Sun, 18 Jun 2023 08:04:23 +0700 >> On Jun 18, 2023, at 1:07 AM, tsie...@softcon.com wrote: >> >> This is interesting, because it's the first time I've ever seen >> "break" as a valid command in pascal, and I've been using pascal >> since the mid/late 80s. All