Re: [FWP] Goal oriented programming

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

On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 11:33:25AM -0500, Edward M. Perry wrote:
> > 
> > That's a mighty sweeping generalization you're making there.
> > I don't think you can categorically say the condition is always more
> > important.  Many times in my code I have lines like this:
> > 
> > 	$activity_log->dump()  if $debug;
> > 
> > or:
> > 
> > 	$activity_log->dump()  if -t STDIN;
> > 
> > The condition is NOT more important in cases like this.
> 
> My computer thinks so, it alway processes the condition first.
> Intentionally writing instructions out of order seems to be of
> no benefit, but Vicki says its ok to do it either way.
> 

Primacy in chronology does not equal primacy in importance.

Ronald

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