10 Mar
2023
10 Mar
'23
12:54 a.m.
Oh also sometimes for breaking out of multiple levels of while/for loops.
The alternatives are often worse.
Warner
On Thu, Mar 9, 2023, 4:31 PM Luther Johnson <luther(a)makerlisp.com> wrote:
I agree, unless I use setjmp/longjmp for that. Besides
error recovery,
there are occasionally other times when we want to locally "return" to a
common state and start "from the top" again. I find such uses very clear in
their intent, and if commented well, not hard to follow at all - as long as
there is not more than one "top" :)
On 03/09/2023 04:21 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
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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