Re: No Go To's Forever!

[dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner)]

On Tue, 21 Mar 2000 09:40:45 -0800, Bill Dale <william.dale.jr@lmco.com> wrote:
>dis90072 wrote:
>> 
>> Having learned ada for the past six months, I have found no reference to
>> the 'jump' command. In MSDOS you can use the 'goto' command. Even in
>> damn assembler you can jump. What is the equivalent in ada? I have had
>> enough of endless 'IF' statements and everlasting case statements. I
>> know it might make the program hard to follow, but I don't care! I must
>> have it!
>> Please......!
>> Regards,
>> Matt.
>
>Never use a GOTO - ever. At all. Anywhere. Period.

This seems absurd. I occasionally come upon situations
where it's either a goto statment or a boolean variable,
and the boolean variable is no more readable. 
The GNAT sources contain 300-400 goto statements and
a brief glance at parts shows that the goto statements
are highly readable.

(I do realize the evil that a goto statement can be -
I spent much of my youth typing in Basic programs from
books. This does not prove that a judicious use of goto
statements in a language with appropriate control structures
like C or Ada is wrong.)

-- 
David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org
Only a nerd would worry about wrong parentheses with
square brackets. But that's what mathematicians are.
   -- Dr. Burchard, math professor at OSU