From: "Rick Stevens" <ricks@xxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, 2009/April/10 12:00
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.
Call it "exception handling on the cheap."
{^_^}
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