NO GO!
As one who started back in the 70's with old style coding that utilized GoTo
in Cobol, Fortran, etc. and had to deal with spaghetti code written by
even earlier developers who never considered that someone else would have to
maintain their code, I feel strongly that GoTo is not to be
On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 11:12:53AM -0500, Jim Giner wrote:
NO GO!
As one who started back in the 70's with old style coding that utilized GoTo
in Cobol, Fortran, etc. and had to deal with spaghetti code written by
even earlier developers who never considered that someone else would have to
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Alain Williams a...@phcomp.co.uk wrote:
On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 11:12:53AM -0500, Jim Giner wrote:
NO GO!
As one who started back in the 70's with old style coding that utilized GoTo
in Cobol, Fortran, etc. and had to deal with spaghetti code written by
even
On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 09:28:10AM -0700, Larry Martell wrote:
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Alain Williams a...@phcomp.co.uk wrote:
If I survey my code I find that I use one GOTO in about 4,000 lines of code
-
that I do not find excessive.
There are, however, people who consider
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Larry Martell
la...@software-horizons.comwrote:
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Alain Williams a...@phcomp.co.uk wrote:
On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 11:12:53AM -0500, Jim Giner wrote:
NO GO!
As one who started back in the 70's with old style coding that utilized
On 12-02-06 11:35 AM, Alain Williams wrote:
On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 09:28:10AM -0700, Larry Martell wrote:
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Alain Williamsa...@phcomp.co.uk wrote:
If I survey my code I find that I use one GOTO in about 4,000 lines of code -
that I do not find excessive.
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Adam Richardson simples...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Larry Martell
la...@software-horizons.comwrote:
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Alain Williams a...@phcomp.co.uk wrote:
On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 11:12:53AM -0500, Jim Giner wrote:
NO
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Larry Martell
la...@software-horizons.comwrote:
The source is my own personal experience working for an avionics
company and working with the FAA to get our code certified under the
DO-178B standard. I never saw anything that said 'no GOTOs' but that's
what I
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Adam Richardson simples...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Larry Martell
la...@software-horizons.comwrote:
The source is my own personal experience working for an avionics
company and working with the FAA to get our code certified under the
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 12:59, Larry Martell la...@software-horizons.com wrote:
I just pulled out my notes from that job - it took me 59 hours to do
the conversion and remove the gotos and recursion, and another 67
hours for testing, verification, integration, documentation, and
certification.
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Daniel Brown danbr...@php.net wrote:
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 12:59, Larry Martell la...@software-horizons.com
wrote:
I just pulled out my notes from that job - it took me 59 hours to do
the conversion and remove the gotos and recursion, and another 67
hours
Am 06.02.12 17:23, schrieb Alain Williams:
However: a few GOTOs can make things clearer. Think of a function that
can fail in several different places (eg data validation, ...). But it
is reading a file which needs to be closed before the function
returns. I have seen code where some $IsError
On 7/02/2012, at 9:44 AM, Marco Behnke wrote:
Am 06.02.12 17:23, schrieb Alain Williams:
However: a few GOTOs can make things clearer. Think of a function that
can fail in several different places (eg data validation, ...). But it
is reading a file which needs to be closed before the
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Marco Behnke ma...@behnke.biz wrote:
Am 06.02.12 17:23, schrieb Alain Williams:
However: a few GOTOs can make things clearer. Think of a function that
can fail in several different places (eg data validation, ...). But it
is reading a file which needs to be
On 6 Feb 2012, at 20:44, Marco Behnke wrote:
Am 06.02.12 17:23, schrieb Alain Williams:
However: a few GOTOs can make things clearer. Think of a function that
can fail in several different places (eg data validation, ...). But it
is reading a file which needs to be closed before the function
On 06 Feb 2012 at 20:51, Simon J Welsh si...@welsh.co.nz wrote:
On 7/02/2012, at 9:44 AM, Marco Behnke wrote:
Am 06.02.12 17:23, schrieb Alain Williams:
However: a few GOTOs can make things clearer. Think of a function that
can fail in several different places (eg data validation, ...). But
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 11:34 PM, Tim Streater t...@clothears.org.uk wrote:
On 06 Feb 2012 at 20:51, Simon J Welsh si...@welsh.co.nz wrote:
On 7/02/2012, at 9:44 AM, Marco Behnke wrote:
Am 06.02.12 17:23, schrieb Alain Williams:
However: a few GOTOs can make things clearer. Think of a
Am 06.02.12 21:55, schrieb Adam Richardson:
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Marco Behnke ma...@behnke.biz wrote:
Am 06.02.12 17:23, schrieb Alain Williams:
many places to see if things should be done. That is just as bad as
lots of GOTO -- often when having to write something like that I
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