From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4b06f8f15f01a568 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public From: "Larry Brasfield" Subject: Re: Software landmines (was: Why C++ is successful) Date: 1998/08/21 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 383185426 References: <35cb8058.645630787@news.ne.mediaone.net> <902934874.2099.0.nnrp-10.c246a717@news.demon.co.uk> <6r1glm$bvh$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <6r9f8h$jtm$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <6renh8$ga7$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <6rf59b$2ud$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <35dc6bf4.5328251@news.erols.com> <35dfb9a8.4685477@news.erols.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Organization: Serendipitous Endeavors NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 18:29:16 PDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-08-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Ell wrote in message <35dfb9a8.4685477@news.erols.com>... >ell@access.digex.net (Ell) wrote: > >>I'm willing to use 'goto' in time critical code where inlines are not >>possible, to save stack winding and unwinding. Other than that I'd >>rather use a procedure call and returns to get back. > >And even then, I try to organize the code so that I invoke 'goto >:labelX' and jump to its target ':labelX' **within** a single >procedure/function/module. > >I try **never** to cross procedure/funtion/module boundaries with a >'goto', when I use it for time critical code. Is there any language in ordinary use that permits a goto to cross a procedure boundary? If so, how are goto target name scopes defined? If not, why make so much of trying to avoid such goto's? --Larry Brasfield Above opinions may be mine alone. (Humans may reply at unundered larry_br@sea_net.com )