Re: GOTO considered necessary (reworked)

[Spam Hater <no.such.user@no.such.com>]

> I personally find returns very handy, even though I know perfectly well
> they are gotos:
> 
>   [snip]
> 
> it is very handy to read the procedure and immediately know that you
> have the whole story if condition is true, without having to see if
> there is some code following the end if.

Or 'if' statements nested eight levels deep, each one checking
for an error condition, and the deepest 'else' doing the real work.

> (a little quiz, why do my messages occasionally end with ^Zdp?
>  I know the answer, I am just wondering if it is obvious :-) :-)

My guess is you are accutomed to an editor which uses that pattern
to save and exit, and when you type it by habit in another tool, you
don't waste the time to edit it out.

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