On Saturday, 28 July 2012 at 16:55:32 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
On Friday, 27 July 2012 at 00:57:15 UTC, bearophile wrote:
Stuart:
Why does D have GOTO? I haven't used GOTO in over a decade,
because it's truly evil.
Gotos are not so evil. Just use them when they are useful and
they can't be replaced by structured programming. In D I
create finite state machines at compile-time that use gotos,
they are quick.
Do FSMs really need to be spaghetti monsters? I heard, gcc
optimizer can tear functions into common pieces and them
reassemble the functions back from these pieces, or simply
inline them, won't you get the same result?
State machines encoded with goto tend not to be more spaghetti
than their
specifications (say in regex or graph picture
