Re: Never use GOTO (was Is this the Free-Format that we asked for?)

[Buck Calabro <buck.calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim Langston wrote:

>I think the whole point is, 95% of the time that 
>GOTO is used it is used incorrectly!  With
>such a failure to success rate it is much 
>better just to not use the statement at all.
>
>That is why I said I don't use GOTO.  Ever.  
>Period.  Not that GOTO is a bad statement, 
>but since it can be abused so easily it is 
>much simpler just not to use it.

Jim,
I bet you use LEAVE or ITER though.
They are also branching instructions that leave a construct before all it's
statements are executed.  It's the early exit that's the Bad Thing, not the
spelling of the instruction.

Buck Calabro
Aptis; Albany, NY
"Nothing is so firmly believed as
 that which we least know" -- Michel Montaigne
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