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From: Ell <ell@access2.digex.net>
Subject: Re: Why C++ is successful
Date: 1998/08/14
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In comp.object Robert Dewar <dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
: Andy said

: <<Ahh... but have you ever found a "good" reason for using it? I have used
: goto in C and Pascal in certain rare cases, but I have always found clearer
: ways to code these cases in Ada.
:>>

: The two obvious uses vfor gotos in Ada are

: 1) to get a loop "continue" mechanism

: 2) to write finite state machines encoding the state into the PC. Yes, some
: people prefer case statements for this purpose, but many people prefer the
: use of labels and gotos as the most obvious translation of labeled states
: with arrows between them.
:
: In general, the use of gotos makes sense if the resulting code is clearer
: and easier to maintain. THat's relatively rare, but not non-existnent, and
: it is quite common to run across tortured code with multiple boolean flags
: which can be easily simplified using a goto. 

How about to avoid procedure call stack winding and unwinding in time
critical code?

Elliott
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