In <4f972a24.4020...@phoenixsoftware.com>, on 04/24/2012 at 03:33 PM, Edward Jaffe <edja...@phoenixsoftware.com> said:
>It finds that GOTO is most often used when the programmer is >attempting to write more efficient code yet tends to have exactly >the opposite effect. Attempts at micro-optimization often have the opposite effect to that which is intended. I'd be interested in a study of efficiency issues when GOTO is used only to implement control structures not natively available. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN