speaking of things considered harmful, line lengths of over 80 chars
are considered harmful.  cut it out.
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."
what a wonderful expression.  my professors would spend entire lectures
explaining that concept, and yet three little words convey it so well.
kevin
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