Re: use of the break statement

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From: Konrad Schwarz
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 1996 23:05

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|> I have yet to see code which uses break/continue/goto which could not 
|> be re-written without them, but if used carefully they make the code 
|> clearer and faster.

Sorry to be so vague, but a pair of Italian researchers prooved this in
the late '60s or early '70s.  Structured programming is equivalent in
expression power to arbitrary gotos.  (Of course this is obvious when
you realize that a Turing machine can be implemented with programming
constructs.  I think what they did was to provide some kind of mapping
from arbitrary programs using only goto to programs using only structured
constructs.)

Konrad Schwarz

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Date: 8 Mar 1996 17:05:24 -0600
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