How to Break a While ?????

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How to Break a While ?????

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Kashif SSCommitted Points: 1881 More actions · Answer 1

I have been taught not to use GOTO until and unless its extremely necessary. I am working on a project having 2400+ stored procedures and only 2 of them uses GOTO statements. I have been working with Visual Basic for the last 4 years and never used GOTO (and I know its present).

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David Burrows SSC Guru Points: 65142 More actions · Answer 2

Hi Frank,

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be careful with such statements!
There were times when I wished I'd meet the developer alone at night

Harsh tone in that quote.

Let me know which dark alleys, and I certainly keep well away.

Far away is close at hand in the images of elsewhere.
Anon.

Frank Kalis SSC Guru Points: 111183 More actions · Answer 3

Hi David,

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Harsh tone in that quote.
Let me know which dark alleys, and I certainly keep well away.

you don't have to be afraid of me

If you have followed yesterdays' threads, you'll know that yesterday was one of those days I now call SNAFU days (now, that I know what it means )

But debugging someone else's code isn't easy, is it?

I think that must be that QBASIC days, my father-in-law was programming. I saw once one of his listings, and tried really hard to be kind in comments when seeing GOTO 10, GOTO 80, GOTO Hell

Cheers,

Frank

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David Burrows SSC Guru Points: 65142 More actions · Answer 4

Yep your right Frank expecially when that someone reiterates multiple nested subs and functions 10 to 20 times. I keep my procs as small and compact as possible and only nest procs 1 deep (never recursive).

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QBASIC

Hey still use it from time to time, mainly for fun though. My favourite was GOTterdammerung with a particular compiler that used the first 3 chars of commands when compiling.

Far away is close at hand in the images of elsewhere.
Anon.

PBirch SSCrazy Eights Points: 8493 More actions · Answer 5

Ah, an old fashioned discussion on GOTO. Those were the days...punch cards and reels and hard drives the size of my desk.

Quick, raise your hands if you know what an MFN drive is.

Seriously, any coding construct can create hard to read code. Let's nest some triggers, add a couple of recursive loops, and use i, j, k as a variable names. Party down.

Bonne chance

Dr. Peter Venkman: Generally you don't see that kind of behavior in a major appliance.

Patrick

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