Re: When it comes to GOTOs...
*All* taboos are essentially stupid.
A GOTO is a taboo. It is a favorite programming bogey of the
structured programming merchants who also failed, so miserably, to
deliver on almost all of their early promises.
I am not advocating introduction of a goto statement in Euphoria. But
to dismiss it out of hand as the cause of all evil is a religious
zealotry of the unthinking kind.
In twenty years of pascal programming I used a goto not more than four
or five times, but each time it saved my life, so to speak.
Sure, you can even find a theoretical proof that a goto is always
replaceable by some other construct or constructs in any reasonably
modern structured language, but very often it is still the most direct
and by far the *clearest* way to indicate what you want. jiri
ps David, I think you wasting your time, irony is obviously not in
Matt's limited vocabulary.
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