Mark Weaver wrote on Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 11:04:16PM -0400 : > >So ("thinking on paper"), something like: <snip> > > if count <= maxtries (wow, do I forget valid syntax ;-) ) > > then > > wait 30 (??) (give the modem a chance to connect) > > goto start > > else > > issue "Internet connection lost, could not restart" > >message (somewhere) > > fi <snip> > >I'll need to brush up on bash syntax and so forth, and if I'm clever I > >might get rid of the goto. > it is written: "thou shalt NOT use a GOTO...ever!" ;) The force fed us > that in assembler and COBOL classes till I thought it was gonna come > outa my ears.
[root@fiji /usr/src/linux/kernel]# grep "goto.*\;$" * | wc -l 187 Comments? :) Don't tell me Linus doesn't know anything about c now :) Blue skies... Todd -- Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn Cooker Version mandrake-release-9.0-0.3mdk Kernel 2.4.19-4mdk
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