'goto" gone from computer languages or is it!

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Mon, 16 May 2005, Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner wrote:

> 	2. State machines.  It keeps me sane.  This is my biggest use of
> 	GOTOs.  My HTML parser has 22 GOTOs (22 states) and without the use
> 	of GOTOs, the code would probably be more of a mess than it already
> 	is.

I always use a SWITCH construct inside a loop to accomplish this sort of
thing.

>   -spc (I do tend though, to use multiple returns in a function ... )

Me too.  I see no problem with that.

(As long as you properly clean up on your way out.)

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Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
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