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Re: Encoding? (was Re: This isn't good enough!
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Thu, 13 Jul 2000 20:36:34 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Steve Bliss writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.fun, DaveG wrote:
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> > 10 REM Why GOTO is a bad idea • [snip]
> > 999 REM Best DaveG
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> Yikes! That's not the JMP that's bad, it's the target calculation! That's
> what ON <expr> GOTO <label>, <label>, ... was created for!
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> Steve
It's not what it was created for It's WHY it was created.
Yes to make a bad practice part of the language, ROTFHMGUATI*.
But more to the point adding ON to the debate is hardly going
to advance GOTO's position as most hated command<grin>.
AIR ON was first used as an Event trap, then added regexpr widget later.
DaveG
*...howling my guts up at the irony.
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