Re: No Go To's Forever!

["Marin D. Condic" <mcondic-nospam@quadruscorp.com>]

Bill Dale wrote:
> 
> Never use a GOTO - ever. At all. Anywhere. Period.
> 
> OK, I'll put you down as not interested in working for me.
> 
While I will concede that there are times when a goto might make sense,
I'll say this much: I have been writing software in Ada since the
original standard was published and it must total up to millions of
lines of code by now. Not only have I never once used the goto (except
possibly in experimental code designed to illustrate its use) but I have
never once encountered it in a fielded, working body of code.

Anyone who says they "need" a goto in order to code has probably not
given the problem enough thought. Or possibly, they have learned a
coding style based on assembler or Fortran and have just never been
shown how to code the same things without the goto.

Don't fight the language! Learn to do it "The Ada Way"

MDC
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