Re: Using break in while loops bad habit?

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Date	2016-01-16 16:41 -0800
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Subject	Re: Using break in while loops bad habit?
From	"Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com>

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On Saturday, January 16, 2016 at 9:41:16 AM UTC-6, Philip Herlihy wrote:
> 
> A programming team of which I was a member in the early '80s readily 
> recognised the difficulties with the GoTo statement, and resolved to 
> replace it with the "ComeFrom" statement instead.

Which is criticized for the same reason as GOTO. Local reasoning is lost[1]

>  In other work, we 
> sought to model the observed behaviour of computer systems by positing a 
> "sometimes" qualifier, to be appended to a statement in much the same 
> way that the !important qualifier is appended to lines of CSS.  Take-up 
> of these far-seeming developments has so far been slow.

For good reason. I think what you might have been discovering at the time was Aspect Oriented Programming [2]. 

[1] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMEFROM>
[2] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect-oriented_programming>

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Using break in while loops bad habit? jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2016-01-16 04:19 -0800
  Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-01-16 13:59 +0100
    Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? Philip Herlihy <thiswillbounceback@you.com> - 2016-01-16 15:41 +0000
      Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2016-01-16 16:41 -0800
  Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? Philip Herlihy <thiswillbounceback@you.com> - 2016-01-16 13:02 +0000
    Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2016-01-16 13:43 +0000
      Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-01-16 14:56 +0100
        Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2016-01-18 09:39 -0800
          Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-01-18 19:16 +0100
            Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2016-01-23 10:32 -0800
              Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-01-24 00:49 +0100
                Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2016-01-25 21:36 -0800
                Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-01-26 10:12 +0100
                Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2016-01-26 11:11 -0800
                Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-01-26 22:48 +0100
                Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2016-01-26 15:03 -0800
                Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-01-27 00:51 +0100
              Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? Norman Peelman <npeelman@cfl.rr.com> - 2016-01-23 21:00 -0500
                Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2016-01-25 21:39 -0800
                Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-01-26 10:17 +0100
                Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? Doc O'Leary  <droleary@2015usenet1.subsume.com> - 2016-01-26 17:10 +0000
                Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? Doc O'Leary  <droleary@2015usenet1.subsume.com> - 2016-01-26 16:44 +0000
                Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2016-01-26 11:17 -0800
                Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? Doc O'Leary  <droleary@2015usenet1.subsume.com> - 2016-01-27 05:00 +0000
                Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2016-01-27 09:29 -0800
            Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? Norman Peelman <npeelman@cfl.rr.com> - 2016-01-23 20:53 -0500
              Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-01-24 10:28 +0100
              Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2016-01-25 21:41 -0800
      Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2016-01-16 09:06 -0600
        Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2016-01-16 17:31 +0000
        Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2016-01-16 16:52 -0800
  Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? Aleksandro <aleksandro@gmx.com> - 2016-01-16 12:43 -0300
  Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? Silvio <silvio@internet.com> - 2016-01-16 17:51 +0100
    Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-01-17 09:09 +0100
      Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2016-01-17 11:19 +0000
      Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? Silvio <silvio@internet.com> - 2016-01-18 00:40 +0100
        Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2016-01-18 13:53 +1100
          Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? Silvio <silvio@internet.com> - 2016-01-18 07:59 +0100
  Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2016-01-16 16:34 -0800
    Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-01-17 01:29 +0000
      Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2016-01-17 19:22 -0800
        Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2016-01-18 10:00 +0000
        Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-01-18 10:50 +0000
          Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2016-01-20 16:40 -0800
            Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-01-21 01:50 +0000
      Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? Dr J R Stockton <reply1600@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2016-01-18 22:55 +0000
        Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2016-01-18 16:10 -0800
    Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2016-01-18 09:46 -0800
      Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2016-01-18 10:16 -0800
      Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-01-18 19:18 +0100
        Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2016-01-23 10:33 -0800
          Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-01-24 00:51 +0100
            Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2016-01-25 21:46 -0800
              Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-01-26 10:22 +0100
                Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2016-01-26 11:19 -0800
      Re: Using break in while loops bad habit? Doc O'Leary  <droleary@2015usenet1.subsume.com> - 2016-01-19 16:48 +0000

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