On Fri, 6 Jun 2014 17:12:15 -0700 Charlie Kester <[email protected]> wrote:
> In fairness to the Java fanatics, prohibitions against goto's predate > Java by many years. Dijkstra's letter "Go To Statement Considered > Harmful" was published in 1968, while the Java project wasn't begun > until 1991. Still doesn't deny the fact goto has powers you never have with if-statements. It can be misused (of course), but if handled well, it is definitely a great tool to handle errors for instance (no need to call free() in each sub-if-clause but instead "goto fail" and then do the magic there. "Go To Statement Considered Harmful" is an interesting approach, but predates the C-language, too. Discussing this topic, this is always brought up. I wonder why these people don't express their own opinion instead and share their magic ideas why goto is "harmful". However, I agree with Christoph that this topic and debate are very old. Let's focus on more relevant stuff instead and do some work ;). Cheers FRIGN -- FRIGN <[email protected]>
