Re: voting on GOTO
Chris Bensler wrote:
>
> Jason Gade wrote:
> >
> > Jeremy Cowagar (and others) are making a new and improved standard library
> > for
> > Euphoria.
> >
> > It was decided to incorporate this library in with Euphoria version 4.0.
> >
> > Some features, many of which have been outstanding on sourceforge for a long
> > time, were included in a feature list for 4.0 and the new standard library
> > will
> > rely upon them.
>
> Why would it be relying on features that have not even been officially
> approved
> yet? It appears to me that consulting the community is more of a afterthought
> and simple courtesy ebenthough the decision has already been made.
>
Um, something is seriously wrong here. Communication has failed. Goto is not in
euphoria and no part of the Euphoria coded language uses goto, because it only
exists on one persons machine, the person who developed it.
Consulting the general community is *certainly* not an afterthought!
> I dont' mean that to be rude or bitter. I can easily relate to those people
> who have spent alot of effort to provide a prototype of the proposed changes
> and don't want to see their efforts tossed aside. Unfortunately, just because
> someone already spent the effort doesn't mean that it should be accepted.
> There
> is more at stake than bruising someone's feelings.
>
There is another miscommunication. Those who want goto have given all sorts of
justification. I don't remember any justification being, we don't want to hurt
anyone's feelings!
--
Jeremy Cowgar
http://jeremy.cowgar.com
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