Re: Situation indicators (long) (was: How to eliminate GOTO?)

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From: halasz
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 15:20

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In article <43dq46$lfe@mujibur.inmind.com>, mfinney@inmind.com writes
: ....
: Yes, but what about code more like...
: 
:    while (x)
:       {
:       significant statements....
:       if (y)
:          continue;
:       significant statements...
:       if (x)
:          break;
:       signficant statements...
:       }
: 
: No matter how you roll the loop, you are still stuck.  I have
: seen that sort of thing when scanning input on a frequent
: basis.

It is reallie quite common in hand-written parsing--I believ that 
you refer to that.  Nothing that I generallie write more strains the
common control structures than parsing.

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Subject: Re: Situation indicators (long) (was: How to eliminate GOTO?)
Date: 16 Sep 1995 11:20:51 -0400
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