[BusyBox] [PATCH] Read-only option for losetup.c

Jason Schoon floydpink at gmail.com
Mon Apr 11 04:34:31 UTC 2005


Sounds a bit like PHP's variable, variable names to me.  I'm often
glad I can't see inside the warped minds of those creating programming
languages.  I think it would make my simple mind explode.


On Apr 10, 2005 9:58 PM, Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
> On Sunday 10 April 2005 05:14 pm, Tito wrote:
> > On Sunday 10 April 2005 22:10, Rainer Weikusat wrote:
> > > Jason Schoon <floydpink at gmail.com> writes:
> > > > I know GOTO's have a horrible rep,
> > >
> > > As this apparently will not stop to invade my mail box on its own: The
> > > so-called 'horrible reputation' of goto dates back to ancient FORTRAN
> > > and a single paper by Dijkstra, which offered no better arguments than
> > > (paraphrased quote) "Our abilities to understand processes evolving in
> > > time are rather poor",
> >
> > Hi,
> > I'm not pro nor contra gotos. I as newbie in programming
> > have made my own guideline:
> >
> > "If the starting and ending point of a goto fit in one screen and it
> > makes the code easier to read it's ok to do so, if the ending point
> > is some thousend lines away it is  a BAD THING(TM)"
> >
> > Just my 0.02 Eurocents. ;-P
> > ...or should I say just my 40 italian lire.
> 
> Interesting historical note:
> 
> Early in Java's development, it had numbered breaks (break 2, break 3, etc).
> This was found to be brittle because wrapping a block of code in curly
> brakets could now break stuff.  So they went to labels, which means they're
> basically using goto under a different name. :)
> 
> Now the SICK part is that gcc allows you to take the address of a label to do
> a "computed goto":
> 
> http://visual-mingw.sourceforge.net/doc/gcc-3.2.3/Labels-as-Values.html
> 
> Rob
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