Re: GOTO operator
| From: | Derick Rethans | Date: | Sat, 31 Jul 2004 12:38:57 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: GOTO operator | ||
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On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, Aidan Lister wrote:
> > Develop some wacky construct that you have to use instead... that way, it
> > will scare off novice users, and expert programmers will HAVE to know what
> > they're doing and know that they really need it before they have to
> > implement it. It's along the lines of "make the most dangerous stuff the
> > hardest to do".
>
> I think this is probably one of the best ideas...
>
> > I'm not sure how, though... a huge language construct
> > (goto_this_line_please)? Use numbers instead of labels? Relative jumping?
> > Require extra messages? A weird symbolic construct? *shrug*
>
> I'd just disable it by default, force them to compile --with-goto
>
> That definitely stops the novices, and allows experts to use it if they
> reallllly need it.
>
> Of course then portability then becomes a problem...
So this is yet-another-bogus-idea ;-)
Derick