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kevin lyda wrote:
> speaking of things considered harmful, line lengths of over 80 chars
> are considered harmful.  cut it out.

:-) In fairness he was using webmail

> On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 11:27:59AM +0100, wintermute wrote:
> 
>>Interesting. I've always wondered about things 'considered' to be bad. 
>>Example the GOTO, most languages support a goto of some sort, so are
>>gotos really bad?
> 
> 
> if used properly, they actually can make code more readable.  but those
> proper occasions are quite rare really.  it's a good idea to avoid them
> since over use of goto will create what niall calls "write-only code."

Yes a clever term usually (and deservedly) attributed to perl.
Of course you can create write-only code in any language.
There's even a competition for obfuscated C code which is always
worth a look: http://www.es.ioccc.org/main.html

Pádraig.

p.s. what sort of processing do you do with:
kevin+dated+1029235349.f17378@ie.suberic.net


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