Re: goto considered essential
Rad wrote:
>
> C Bouzy wrote:
> >
> > Tom,
> >
> > If you were to do a search you will come across numerous discussions
> > regarding
> > goto. Robert is not going to add goto, and in my opinion it does very little
> > to help the language.
> >
> > ----If you continue to do what you have always done,
> > you will get what you have always gotten.----
>
> If we are talking about "bad programming habits" as main deterrent for goto,
> then I would say that no programming language can have any bad habits. It is
> the programmer who can.
>
> Any programming language provides various resources for the programmer to
> build his/her logic. It is really up to the programmer to use the bad or
> good logic using these resources.
>
> It is possible to write a program with worst logic which doesn't have a
> single goto as well as a best program which makes use of goto’s at
> essential points. To pick up these essential points is the programmer’s job.
>
> In end, goto’s won’t hurt from the programming language perspective, but
> can hurt from programmer’s viewpoint, if not used properly.
> Eu should implement goto if possible and allow the programmer to take
> a call on it.
>
> Regards,
> Rad.
I'm weird this way. I don't normally think this way but in this case I do.
I don't want to tell people they can or can't do something, but I wouldn't want
to see goto added to Euphoria. I've seen a lot of good arguments for it but none
of them have swayed me.
Adding goto probably wouldn't change my personal style. It is just one of those
things that I think would lessen the beauty of the language.
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in mind that being raised in different cultures and different places can
result in such differences of viewpoint between individuals.
The author is from planet Earth." [author unknown]
j.
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