VOTE

[David Liguori]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 08:36 -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> 
>>On Wed, 27 Dec 2006, Larry Phillips wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>Ah, reminds me of the old proposal to replace GOTOs with COMEFROMs.  They
>>>>worked like this:  As you were reading a sequence of statements you'd see
>>>>
>>>> 	COMEFROM <line#>
>>>>
>>>>The following statements would be executed if control passed through in
>>>>line or if control was received by a branch from <line#>.  The fun part
>>>>was that there was no indication to the reader at the statement <line#>
>>>>that control transferred from there to elsewhere in the program.
>>>>
>>>>Made GOTOs seem downright comprehensible...
>>>
>>>INTERCAL!
>>>
>>>http://catb.org/~esr/intercal/
>>
>>Oh, but older than that...
>>
>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMEFROM appears to be fairly comprehensive.
>>-- 
>> 		Matthew Saltzman
> 
> I hope everyone realizes that the COMEFROM is a joke. A language with a
> COMEFROM statement is impossible to compile.
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Sorry, I'm not seeing why this is a syntactical impossibility.  That it is intended as a joke I don't doubt.  "Spaghetti code" would be too generous.