Forum: Ruby reconsidered 0.9.1 Released

Posted by Jim Wise (Guest)
on 2012-10-06 01:38
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reconsidered version 0.9.1 has been released!

* <https://github.com/jimwise/reconsidered>
* <Author::    Jim Wise  (mailto:jwise@draga.com)>
* <Copyright:: Copyright (c) 2012 Jim Wise>
* <License::   2-clause BSD-Style (see LICENSE.txt)>

Reconsidered adds a vital and sorely missed language feature to Ruby:
the well known and widely loved GOTO operation.

As discussed in Donald Knuth’s seminal paper _Structured Programming 
with
go to Statements_ (see REFERENCES in the README), GOTO can be an
important part of your structured programming toolkit – but it has not
been available in Ruby until now.

However, this implementation is itself severely limited – it only allows
execution to jump to a point in the program which has already been
passed during execution of the program; it is thus less general purpose
a tool than the true GOTO of languages such as Fortran.

Changes:

### 0.9.1 / 2012-10-05

* Minor documentation updates
Posted by Ryan Davis (Guest)
on 2012-10-06 02:24
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On Oct 5, 2012, at 16:37 , Jim Wise <jwise@draga.com> wrote:

> Reconsidered adds a vital and sorely missed language feature to Ruby:
> the well known and widely loved GOTO operation.

FINALLY!

Wait a sec... This looks much more like COMEFROM than GOTO. :P
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