Re: Problems w/ goto
| From: | Daniel P. Brown | Date: | Fri, 17 Dec 2010 17:59:37 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Problems w/ goto | ||
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On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 12:22, Robert Cummings <robert@interjinn.com> wrote:
>
> I was one of the people that argued in favour of GOTO on the Internals list
> a few years ago. GOTO has a use, and a very good one at that. It is by far
> the most efficient construct when creating parsers or other similar types of
> logic flow. The demonized GOTO of the 80s was primarily due to jumping to
> arbitrary points in the code, or in the case of basic to arbitrary line
> numbers in the code which had little meaning for future readers.
Not to mention failure to properly break, as in the OP's code example.
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</Daniel P. Brown>
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