Re: Infinite Loops and Explicit Exits

In article <kjmlp0hq1r84c0ha7097aupnfq4mj04t95@4ax.com>, Robert Wagner <spamblocker-robert@
wagner.net> writes:
> On 16 Nov 2004 12:00:19 -0800, riplin@Azonic.co.nz (Richard) wrote: 
>
> I understand that. What I dislike is their refusal to search. We're
> all familiar with search engines, grep, spelling checkers, automatic
> completion, etc. We know it can be done. Many of us written code to do
> it.
>
> I think they value ideological 'purity' over service to the
> programmer.

No, they value service to the programmer; it's just that the service
they value is not making assumptions that are very likely incorrect
about the programmer's intentions.  And that's the way I, for one,
like it.

When I write code, I want it to specify precisely what I mean it to
do.  A language and implementation which warns me of ambiguity is, in
my book, far preferable to one that does not.

I don't call accomodating lazy programmers much of a service at all,
since it only encourages them.

--
Michael Wojcik                  michael.wojcik@microfocus.com

The lark is exclusively a Soviet bird.  The lark does not like the
other countries, and lets its harmonious song be heard only over the
fields made fertile by the collective labor of the citizens of the
happy land of the Soviets.  -- D. Bleiman