[Info-vax] BASIC (and Horizon)

[Dan Cross]

In article <upis9l$2kald$1 at dont-email.me>,
Arne Vajhøj  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>On 2/2/2024 8:49 AM, Dan Cross wrote:
>> In article <uphsad$2fg0v$3 at dont-email.me>,
>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo at nz.invalid> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 1 Feb 2024 21:49:56 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>> The nested do while loop is a big mess.
>>>
>>> Looks like you are adding a whole lot more lines of code in the form of
>>> jumps and places to jump to, and flags to control what to do when you get
>>> there. Adding a bit of a combinatorial explosion in possible cases that
>>> have to be verified somehow.
>>>
>>> In short, you are making a bigger mess.
>> 
>> Again, for this example, the code needs neither goto nor
>> the abstruse loop structure you wrote.  See my earlier
>> post for details.
>
>He cut so much that the context was not obvious.
>
>But his post was a reply to my post with generic
>... blocks.

This seems to be his MO: when presented with an
argument that disconfirms one of his preconceptions,
ignore it and respond to something else, usually
a strawman of his own creation.

>It is true the first specific example he provided
>did not need to solve this problem if it was
>restructured a little.

Yes.  I suspect most of his code similarly.

	- Dan C.