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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Tim_Gahnstr=F6m?= <md9tim@mdstud.chalmers.se>
Subject: Re: No Go To's Forever!
Date: 2000/03/22
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On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Charles Hixson wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Now, now.  I'm sure that I've use a goto instruction at least 6 times in the
> last decade.   Well, maybe 5 times.

I notice that alot of people really hate gotos...
But why is it sooo bad can someone tell me that???

eg. this little snipet to eat spaces andnewlines in a textfiles
to get to the first character

look_ahead(in_file,ch,bool);
<<start>>
while bool loop
  skipline(infile);
  look_ahead(in_file,ch,bool);
end loop;

if ch=' ' then
  while ch=' ' loop
    get(infile,ch);
    look_ahead(in_file,ch,bool);
  end loop;
  goto start;
end if;

Start_reading the words

I assume this is a typical example of bad goto use
but I canot figure out why, I think it is nice and easy 
to read and it takes care of potential 
' ',' ','\n','\n',' ',' ','\n'

I realize everything is posible to do without gotos 
but I canot figure out why it is so horible.
Please enlighten me.
Is goto statments particular slow?

Tim