On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 12:00 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 10:32 -0500, Dave Ihnat wrote: > >> The purpose of deprecating use of goto was to avoid the spaghetti code > >> that was so prevalent, especially in C. > > > > <Bzzzt>. Close but no cigar. The problems with Goto were pointed out by > > Dijkstra in his famous 1968 letter to CACM "Go To Statement Considered > > Harmful", which is several years before C appeared on the scene. (Note > > also Knuth's 1974 rebuttal to Dijkstra "Structured Programming with Goto > > Statements"; old controversies never die, they just fade away). > > > > C programmers are not notable users of goto's in my experience. In fact > > the use of goto is pretty unusual (unless you consider break and > > continue to be disguised goto's). > > > > Don't worry, you can still write illegible code without using any > > goto's. > > Actually, K&R sanctify the use of GOTOs since "there's no multi-level > break defined in C." or words to that extent. True, but this is quite rare. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
