[ILUG] slashdot EW Dijkstra humor

[Nick Murtagh]

On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 19:56, Kenn Humborg wrote:
> Well, you should consider 'break' inside a 'select' statement
> to be part of the syntax, rather than a control flow modifier.

Why? When it comes down to the assembly level, it gets turned
into some kind of jump instruction. Should I pretend I don't know
this when I'm programming?

> A _mandatory_ part of the syntax, at that.

It's not mandatory. You can leave out the break, and the flow
of control will continue to the next case. Which can be useful
in certain circumstances.

Nick