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Congratulation again!!! Matsche On 2014-10-04 18:47, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 04 October 2014 12:09:57 Dave Cole did opine > And Gene did reply: >> Hi Alex, >> >> >>I never asked to anybody on the board this issue. << >> >> I understand. But several of the board members are now obviously >> aware of your desire to have a GOTO instruction in the LinuxCNC >> gcode language. >> >> >>I honestly don't know how to do it . >> >> Ok.. I didn't know. I just wanted to try and help you. >> So you will need to convince someone else to alter the program and >> submit a patch for review. Then it may or may not be included in the >> official releases of LinuxCNC in the future. However, if you have a >> patch, you can apply that to LinuxCNC yourself and recompile the >> program and gain that functionality. There are instructions on the >> LinuxCNC website on how to get and compile the LinuxCNC source code. >> >>>> Never in my mind to see a so strong reaction from a part of the >>>> people I >> read .<< >> >> Don't take it personally. >> >> Some programmers have strong negative feelings about the GOTO >> instruction. Some really horrendous code has been written with the >> help of the GOTO instruction. Extensive use of the GOTO instruction is >> generally associated with bad programming practices. > And I guess I am one of them "crusty" old programmers as I'm celebrating > my 80th today. I have carved code in several languages but except for > some early efforts in basic, haven't used a goto in any other language > that effectively did have it by whatever name. I have, after that basic > disaster, which was scrapped in the long run & the function re-written in > assembler and C combined, pretty much looked at a goto as the equ of a > painter painting himself into a corner. Its not only embarrassing, but > seems to show a lack of forethought in how to go about solving the problem > at hand. That isn't intended to insult anyone who does use it by design, > just that I have learned to think about how to do it which automatically > assumes it does not exist, and usually have a pseudo code written out and > printed as an outline to follow before a real line of code is typed. > >>>> Can you kindly explain me how to express an official request to the >>>> LCNC >> board of developers. << >> Making an official request to the board may very well result in no >> changes unless they personally are interested in making the changes. >> >> Here is the official "How to contribute web page". >> http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/html/code/Contributing-to-LinuxCNC.html >> >>>> First of all I'm not so comfortable with the english writing to >>>> express my >> self fully .<< >> >> You do very well. > I'll have to agree. >>>> I tried during the thread to explain why the GOTO (or whatever >> function/instruction can do the same thing) can be useful to produce >> clear and well structured G code but maybe I failed .<< >> >> I don't think that was an argument that you or anyone else could win on >> this list. >> >>>> If a feature is transversal between different CNC manufacturers to be >>>> a >> sort of "standard" why LCNC shudn't have it ? >> >> Good question. >> >> Regards, >> >> Dave > [...] > > Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "In der Wissenschaft siegt nie eine neue Theorie, nur ihre Gegner sterben nach und nach" Max Planck ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Meet PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance Requirements with EventLog Analyzer Achieve PCI DSS 3.0 Compliant Status with Out-of-the-box PCI DSS Reports Are you Audit-Ready for PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance? Download White paper Comply to PCI DSS 3.0 Requirement 10 and 11.5 with EventLog Analyzer http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=154622311&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
