10 Mar
2023
10 Mar
'23
12:21 a.m.
On Thu, Mar 9, 2023, 4:18 PM segaloco via TUHS <tuhs(a)tuhs.org> wrote:
GOTO is one of those paradoxical things where I would
only trust the most
sophisticated engineer to know when it's acceptable to use a GOTO but on
the flip side would be suspicious of anyone claiming to be an engineer that
uses any amount of GOTOs...
Were any of the various GOTOs in languages ever meant to be any more than
providing the same level of control that branch statements in assembly do?
Was there ever some vision anyone's aware of concerning a sophisticated,
dependable use of GOTOs? Since my first days poking around learning C GOTO
has been mentally filed away as an assembly vestige for folks in
transition, not a dependable construct in its own right. Any alternative
camps out there?
In C I use it all the time to do goto err for common error recovery because
C doesn't have anything better.
Warner
- Matt G.
------- Original Message -------
On Thursday, March 9th, 2023 at 3:01 PM, Steffen Nurpmeso <
steffen(a)sdaoden.eu> wrote:
I wonder if Pink Floyd's Summer68 maybe
refers to this.
Other than that i am addicted and could not live without it.
The other (terrible) song is from 1984 (east southern US).
--steffen
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|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
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|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
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