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Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy nigde at mitechki.net
Tue Dec 26 20:43:04 UTC 2006


Rick Stevens wrote:
> Well, if you read Kernighan & Ritchey's original "The C Programming
> Language" book, the "goto" was only put in because C doesn't provide a
> multi-level break statement.  The only way out of that situation short
> of lots and lots of sentinel values is a goto.  Of course, they also
> state that if you are more than four levels of indentation deep, you
> probably should think about splitting out a function or rethinking your
> logic.
> 
> There are times where a "goto" is appropriate, but one should try to
> minimize its use--true in almost any procedural language.  If you want
> to abuse the "goto", write in BASIC.  :-)

http://xkcd.com/c194.html




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