Whoever designed the CodeDOM should be forced to use it

[honey the codewitch]

Now I have to restructure some performance critical code entirely because of the lack "break" statement. I'm angry at their lack of effort.

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[Greg Utas]

If it had a break statement, it would probably follow C++ and overload it. :mad: But surely it has...you know...goto. :laugh:

[honey the codewitch]

If does have goto, and i'm seriously considering it at this point

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[Greg Utas]

And CodeDOM sounds like an epithet for my rubber duck, who's a refactoring taskmaster. :laugh:

[honey the codewitch]

Hahaha Lick my boot! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

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[David ONeil]

(Shouldn't it have been 'bootstrap'?)

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[Brady Kelly]

Well, when there's a reason, and it's thought out properly, there's nothing wrong with a goto.

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[honey the codewitch]

I think the reason would hopefully be better than "someone at microsoft slacked off"

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[Mark_Wallace]

You could be starting a trend, here: Whoever designed AnnoyingProduct should be forced to use it I can think of several values for AnnoyingProduct, without even putting my mind to it

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

[honey the codewitch]

It's a good principle, IMO. :-D

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[Jorgen Andersson]

Eating your own dog food - Wikipedia[^]

Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello

[CPallini]

You cannot overload the break statement in C++.

[Sander Rossel]

You could almost say it... Broke your code! Ba dum tish! :D

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[Mark_Wallace]

Jörgen Andersson wrote:

Eating your own dog food - Wikipedia[^]

Nice! It links to some fun articles, too.

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

[Richard Deeming]

Do it. break is just a thinly-disguised goto anyway. :) Here's an article from 2007 with some alternatives for the unsupported features: CodeDom Assistant[^]

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[Greg Utas]

What I meant was that C++ overloads break itself, although I suppose this can be debated. But it's annoying not to be able to exit a loop using break when inside a switch statement that's embedded within that loop.

[honey the codewitch]

Thanks but I've got codedom assist covered (CodeDOM Go Kit: The CodeDOM is Dead, Long Live the CodeDOM)[^]

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[CPallini]

OK, now I got it. I think I've used the break statement millions times without ever considering its 'double' nature (I mean, I knew and eccepted it blindly)! :) Thank you for the explanation.

[Greg Utas]

Or maybe "reboot"!

[obermd]

Brady Kelly wrote:

Well, when there's a reason, and it's thought out properly, there's nothing wrong with a goto.

Just document what the goto is in there for. Even Dykstra said goto has a place.