On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 6:07 AM, Walter Bright <newshou...@digitalmars.com>wrote:
> Don wrote: > >> I still avoid goto because I was told to. But eventually I realised that >> it's 100% propaganda. I actually think my code would be cleaner if I used >> it; it would allow lots of local flag variables to be eliminated. >> But I still have this residual prejudice against 'goto' which is really >> hard to get rid of. >> > > The problem with goto is it is easy to get into a human readability problem > with it. No such problem exists for optimization algorithms. > > > Yes, but I doubt any compiler would have a problem with goto. >> > > The last time I even heard of a compiler that fell over and gave up > optimizing if it saw a goto was in the early 80's. I have a hard time > believing LDC has problems with it, but if it does, the authors should hit > the books <g>. > It doesn't :P > > I keep thinking I should put on a "Compiler Construction" seminar! > > P.S. There are problems with goto'ing out of a finally block, and there's a > problem in the optimizer with goto'ing from one try block to another, but > that's not the issue here. >
