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From: Theodore Dennison <dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com>
Subject: Re: Should internet support software be written in Ada?
Date: 1995/03/29
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Fred J. McCall <fjm@ti.com> writes
> >Well, in case you are, I'm now curious. At what times is a "goto" an
> >appropriate solution? The best excuse I ever heard was for simulating
> Any time the code is 'cleaner' with it than without it.  This is often the
> case for things like state machines and dispatchers.  By all means, though, if
> you don't have the judgement to be able to tell, you probably should never use
> it.
> 

Could you be more specific than "state machines"? Any algorithm can be
expressed
as a state machine (I believe there is actually a theorem to this effect, but
it's been a while since college).

I have written a dispatcher before. It seemed clean enough as a loop enclosing
a case statement. I don't think goto's would have made it clearer.

T.E.D. (structured programming bigot)