Re: The fate of Euphoria
Kat wrote:
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> On 8 Nov 2004, at 3:51, codepilot Gmail Account wrote:
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> > I no professional programmer,
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> Really?
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> > and I've only been using euphoria for
> > like 4 years, so I asked a few people (professional programmers) what
> > goto is(was) for. They said it's good for source code protection, ie.
> > by putting in a bunch of GOTOs it is nearly impossible to see what the
> > real code does.
I would not want to try to decifer code that uses goto.
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> That's their problem, not mine. I was paid for code too, once upon a time.
> And i used goto. In fact, i added assy code to evaluate variables so i could
> goto them too.
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> > So is that why you want GOTO, to make euphoria unreadable?
>
> Yeas, of course. You humans always believe the downside. You can't figure
> maybe i can use it to do the appropriate task, so you wish to save me from
> your problems, sheesh. Email is used for spam, it should all be illegal. The
> phone is used by salespeople to interrupt dinner. Television broadcasts pie,
> tv should be illegal too. Ditto the internet.
>
> > Daniel
> > PS CASE is very good, better than a bunch of elsifs.
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> It's another goto in disguise. So is the elsif, for that matter. Picture the
> little
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> goto at the end of each elsif that executes in that stack of if-elsif-end,
> where
> the goto points to the end of the stack.
Those are "higher level" forms of the primitive GOTO.
I have never needed goto, and I think you are the only one,
unfortuainatly.
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> Kat
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