OpenEuphoria

Re: Euphoria features

• Posted by "Cuny, David at DSS" <David.Cuny at DSS.CA.GOV> Nov 15, 1999
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Ralf wrote:

> Lucius, goto's _are_ effective ..

I'm not a big fan of GOTOs, but they are quite effective for exiting nested
blocks of logic.

Yes, I know that you *could* move those blocks into a routine, and use
'return' to jump out of the routine. And I also know that there are
structured ways of writing code that avoid GOTOs - my eBasic translator can
cleverly re-write GOTOs into structured code, resulting in functionally
equivalent but entirely unreadable code.

Restricting the GOTO to only forward jumps might be a reasonable constraint.
I'm not sure I'm ready for named GOTOs, like:

        goto $foo

You can already do that by setting up vectors through routine_id:

        call_proc( foo, {} )

-- David Cuny