Re: [FWP] Goal oriented programming

[Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu>]

On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 06:05:40PM -0400, Mark-Jason Dominus wrote:
> 
> I think what Perry was objecting to wasn't
> 
> 	X if Y
> or
> 	X unless Y
> 
> so much as 
> 
> 	X unless (do this)
> 
> In the original code that he complained about, the condition part had
> a side effect, which is not very much like natural language.
> 

How does 'side effect' map onto 'natural language'???

Ronald

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