Re: go_to what's in using them



On 13 Nov 2006 04:01:50 -0800, santosh wrote:

av wrote:
On Thu, 9 Nov 2006 19:11:22 +0000 (UTC), Walter Roberson wrote:
In article <1163099153.556377.271330@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
marora@xxxxxxxxx <marora@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I keep hearing about not to use 'go_to' in your code. However, I don't
know what's the reasoning behind it?

Can any one here shed some light?

You may wish to search out the famous article,
"Go To Statement Considered Harmful" by Dijkstra.

"while, for, ifs Statements Considered Harmful" by me :)

Are you 'ab' of alt.lang.asm? If so, seemingly, you don't like
traditional assembler nor do you like C! Maybe you should start a group
for your private language, tons of whose source you regularly spam
a.l.a with...

tons of tons
.



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