On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Charles K. Clarkson wrote: > Chris Devers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > : In [brief] defense of GOTO, for some programming it is > : essential. Assembly language programming, for example. > > Since this is a perl list, we can safely assume the > OP was not asking about assembler's goto statement, but > about perl's.
Well, yeah :-) > Programming in assembler, huh. You're either a > computer science student, very curious, or really old. :) The middle one, I guess -- I'm a few years out of school, but not *that* many years (I finished in the late 90s). The point was more that everything has a place. With `goto`, that place in my mind is low level arcana that the average Perl hacker would never get involved with, e.g. C or assembler (same difference, really). In Perl, the most common legit use of `goto` seems to be jumping out of loops, though I wouldn't put it past a clever hacker to do something useful with it in some other context, if s/he knew what they were doing. On the whole though, it seems worth avoiding if it all possible. -- Chris Devers -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
