John P . Looney's [valen at tuatha.org] 16 lines of dribble included:
:>On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 04:01:46PM +0100, Noel Carroll mentioned:
:>> I wasn't knocking it... its just that in my case people used it for
:>> everything. It was all anti-flow structure. You still have to use GOTO
:>> in basic and its good and useful for that. I just wouldn't use it in C/C++
:>> at all with the exception of exception handling or setjmp/longjmp stuff.
:>:> Look through the Linux source - therer are seventy+ gotos!
70+, there's a hell of a lot more than that in the full Linux source code last
time I looked (2.2.15 kernel I think it was). Lots and lots and lots of gotos.
Generally programs can do without goto statements, function blocks, if
statements, switch statements etc. in C, can nearly always more than make up
for gotos and make the code more readable as well.
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