Go rant

[Rainer Deyke]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Hm, I guess I should have been more explicit. The problem isn't defining
> a few more names, but that the explanation completely neglects any
> control flow issues (e.g. conditionals and loops). You can't define a
> new name for each instance of a loop, so everything is recursion etc. I
> mean the consequences are earth-shattering.

The implications of single assignment on control structures seem both
insignificant and obvious to me.  Much more troubling is that it doesn't
work for fields and array elements at all.


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Rainer Deyke - rainerd at eldwood.com