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in thread Burned by precedence rules

You highlighted "wholly artificial" as if it matters, as if a programming concept could be anything else? It's a funny argument to make.

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Re^4: Burned by precedence rules
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Dec 30, 2008 at 12:05 UTC

    It's not the "programming concept" that matters. (Whatever that ethereal phrase may mean to you?)

    It is the wholly artificial distinction between "flow control" and whatever is the complement of that in this context?

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      I make a whole lot of "wholly artificial distinctions". Most people call them "programming styles". Programing styles can be every shade of good and bad, but just pointing out it's a programming style isn't an argument.

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