Don: >Why are break and continue bad?<
Using fuzzy logic they are "25% bad" :-) There is an interesting discussion on the C2 wiki, they mostly agree with you: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?InternalLoopExitsAreOk >I haven't heard anyone make that claim for a very long time.< If 50 years from now people will use the ZZ language that (like D) is essentially C plus some other things, then advices about the C-class languagages from 1980 will be mostly good still. >BTW everyone I've known who thought they were evil, also wanted to ban >multiple return statements in a single function.< Multiple return statements are OK iff the function/method is not too much long (or complex). There are less common situations where even in long functions multiple returns are an improvement. >Most of them didn't like case statements, either.< They are good, if fall through is not the default and if there is some built-in way to make sure you have considered all cases. Bye, bearophile
