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From: yeung@reed.edu (Woodrow Yeung)
Subject: Re: GOTO considered necessary
Date: 1997/07/09
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In article <dewar.866852335@merv>, dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wrote:

> <<Goto's should not be used to fake continues.
>  
> Woody Yeung>>
> 
> 
> See, Sam, there are plenty of dogmatic folks around on this issue, so I
> think it is clear that your write up is worth the effort!!!

Dogmatic?  I gave pretty good reasons against it as a continue.  I guess I
must be dogmatic about not using goto's to jump to the next statement too.

[Robert Dewar from previous post]
> There are many places where a goto is the natural and clearest way of doing 
> things.

You seem pretty dogmatic about using gotos.  I suppose you have to dogmatic
to be programming in Ada in the first place. ;-)

Woody Yeung

PS  I should have said MODERN HLL.  Break is broken in C, you need a goto
to break from a while/switch.