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[Chris R Miller]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Yah, same here. I seem to finally have found one of the elusive cases
> when goto simplifies things.
>
> About Brad's variant - ranges don't define clear, but assigning b =
> b.init does the trick. (I personally still find the goto version
> marginally clearer. It's also marginally more efficient because it
> doesn't do one assignment and one vacuous check. Also the joke with the
> programmer who throws the water and then applies the known procedure to
> make coffee comes to mind.)

Enlighten those of us unfamiliar with this joke?