From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2002-07-26T06:04:17+09:00
Subject: Re: use of #missing_method

Hi --

On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, Paul Brannan wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 04:29:01AM +0900, David Alan Black wrote:
> > But, allowing for word inversion, I've never heard a case made for
> > avoiding it where it fits in to a design.
>
> I've never heard a case for avoiding goto where it fits into design. :)

You want precision in language and logic?  What are you, a computer
programmer?  :-)

OK, v2.0: I've never heard a case made for avoiding it on principle.

Note that I'm being cowardly and not making an actual case for not
avoiding it -- just saying that, in reading discussions of it and
seeing cases where it's been proposed as a solution, I don't remember
its being dismissed as an inherently questionable technique.

(Can't say that about goto :-)


David

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