Re: Help with Exceptions!

[bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff)]

In article <31987FF6.2781E494@escmail.orl.mmc.com>,
Theodore E. Dennison <dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com> wrote:
>...Personally, I'd 
>rather write the unclear non-goto code. The Goto is one genie I'm not
>about to release from the bottle.

Interesting way to put it.  ;-)

>However, I remember vividly the ferocity of Robert Dewar's arguments in 
>favor of goto's for FSM's in compilers. Thus I'd be willing to wager
>that if you look through GNAT's source code, you will find gotos. I
>don't KNOW this, its just a (perhaps poorly) edjucated guess on my part.

I count 56 goto statements in my copy of the gnat sources.  So, the
coders are obviously not goto-phobes, but they are obviously not
creating heaps of spaghetti out of gotos, either.  Of those, 31 are in
the parser, and 6 in the scanner.

- Bob