OpenEuphoria

Re: goto considered essential

• Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at yahoo.com> Jan 21, 2006
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Vincent wrote:
> Robert Craig has expressed his opionion about the goto statement many times
> in the past.
> 
> According to him, there is almost no chance of "goto" ever being added into
> official Euphoria. He and others feel it causes "spaghetti code" execution.
> I am against the goto construct for the bad programming habits it taught me
> in Liberty Basic.
> 
> If you really want the goto and labels, implement them yourself in the public
> domain or C back-end source code. Or use Matt's Object Oriented Euphoria
> and/or
> Bach.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Vincent

I've been thinking a bit about the next release of Euphoria. Although the major
enhancement will be for cooperative multitasking, I think that it will also
enable a general exception library to be built.

I think the yield() feature will be very powerful for certain constructs not
necessarily related to multitasking. Mainly I'm thinking of closures, I think
that's the right word, routines that maintain state and can be resumed at the
point where they yield.


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j.