Russel Winder wrote:
I was wondering if there had been any research on the area of conceptualization of code structures especially control structure like for, "defensive programming" and errors that could provide some scientific input into the debate.
I am not aware of any empirical studies on this topic. Most articles seems to date back to the structured programming debate, and are about issues such as recursion versus iteration, or exiting from the middle of loop. Although I am in the process of investigating the roles of loops (like Sajaniemi's roles of variables), I have not looked into this issue either, but I might keep it in the back of my head next time I have to analyse more source code. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PPIG Discuss List (discuss@ppig.org) Discuss admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/discuss Announce admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/announce PPIG Discuss archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40ppig.org/
