OpenEuphoria

Re: Kat's goto

• Posted by gwalters at sc.rr.com Feb 07, 2002
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I'm with Kat. I'm tired of those obtuse sections that indent off the page
and trying to draw pencilled brackets to make sure it's correct. Good
programming is readable and poor is not regardless of the style used. BTW a
good language can satisify more than one style of programming. Each to his
own and all are happy.

George Walters
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Kat" <gertie at PELL.NET>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 3:49 PM
Subject: Re: Kat's goto


>
> On 7 Feb 2002, at 10:34, kbochert at ix.netcom.com wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi David Cuny, you wrote on 2/7/02 1:25:33 AM:
> >
> > >My issues with the GOTO are purely a matter of implemention. The basic
> > >idea
> > >behind coding the goto is fairly simple. You have a table that holds
the
> > >position of the goto.
> >
> > Euphoria's source code has a symbol table that can be used fairly
> > easily. Instead of a table of goto's, you have a series of symbols
> > that are linked to the label symbol.
> >
> > >
> > >So, on a conceptual basis, implementing GOTO is fairly easy. The issue
is
> > >whether the language itself will support it.
> > >...
> > > There may be design issues in Euphoria which make it next to
> > >impossible to implement a GOTO.
> >
> > There could have been but there apperently aren't. (I seem to have
> > it working). It is easy to implement both conceptually and
> > practically.
>
> Great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! )
>
> Kat,
> blissful
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