From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: GOTO considered necessary (reworked)
Date: 1997/06/12
Date: 1997-06-12T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.866134855@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 199706121410.QAA05823@basement.replay.com
Jeff Carter responded to Sam's article with a typical bunch of dogmatic
never-use-gotos stuff that smacks of the fanaticism that was popular in
the 70's, but I would have hoped had disappeared by now.
Anyway Sam, take this as a vote from me that your treatment is very nice,
and just at the right level of dont-use-goto-except-where-useful.
I particularly object to Jeff's notion that introducing miscellaneous
boolean flags to replace structured use of gotos (like the CONTINUE)
makes code more readable. Far from it in my opinion, The use of Boolean's
to encode state that is more reasonably and clearly encoded in the program
counter is a big mistake in my opinion, and can often severely damage
readability in these rare cases we are talking about.
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Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-06-11 0:00 GOTO considered necessary (reworked) Samuel Mize
1997-06-11 0:00 ` Bryce Bardin
1997-06-12 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1997-06-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-17 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-06-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-21 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-06-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-12 0:00 ` Anonymous
1997-06-12 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-06-16 0:00 ` Anonymous
1997-06-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1997-06-12 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-06-13 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-06-16 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-06-17 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-06-25 0:00 ` Van Snyder
1997-06-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-17 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-06-18 0:00 ` Spam Hater
1997-06-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-21 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-06-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-25 0:00 ` Wolfgang Gellerich
1997-06-25 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
1997-06-25 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1997-06-26 0:00 ` Wolfgang Gellerich
1997-06-19 0:00 ` Karel Th�nissen
1997-06-19 0:00 ` Karel Th�nissen
1997-06-23 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-06-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-24 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-06-25 0:00 ` Featuritis not always bad (was re: GOTO considered necessary) Karel Th�nissen
1997-06-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-26 0:00 ` Karel Th�nissen
1997-06-23 0:00 ` GOTO considered necessary (reworked) Spam Hater
1997-06-25 0:00 ` Karel Th�nissen
1997-06-23 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-06-17 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1997-07-21 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-06-13 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-06-14 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1997-06-14 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1997-06-14 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-06-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-16 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-06-17 0:00 ` Spam Hater
1997-06-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-17 0:00 ` Spam Hater
1997-06-17 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-06-19 0:00 ` John Herro
1997-06-25 0:00 ` Function result Van Snyder
1997-06-27 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-06-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-20 0:00 ` GOTO considered necessary (reworked) Robert Dewar
1997-06-17 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-06-19 0:00 ` Spam Hater
1997-06-16 0:00 ` Spam Hater
1997-06-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-17 0:00 ` Spam Hater
1997-06-16 0:00 ` Anonymous
1997-06-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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