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Re: New keyword added: continue

• Posted by Jeremy Cowgar <jeremy at co?gar.?om> May 12, 2008
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CChris wrote:
> 
> Pascal compilers didn't recognise goto, unless a specific option was turned
> on. Perhaps that would be the way to go: if you want goto, have it, but know
> that you are doing things the hard way. I still think some equivalent of
> come_from()
> is necessary to make goto usable in the Euphoria framework - you know, that
> world where raw pointers are considered unsafe -.
> 

I do not think this is a viable option as it would introduce code
incompatabilities. Say, John likes goto's and writes a library but Joe does not
like goto's. He downloads John's library and cannot use it because he will not
enable gotos. Then, John will start declaring "goto must be enabled", etc... I
think that one Euphoria programmer should be able to run another Euphoria
application in the same version w/o incompatibilities.

Along the lines of one of the requirements for the standard library... no
external dependencies. This is so if Jane writes a program, she knows it will run
on Jim's install of Euphoria.

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Jeremy Cowgar
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