OpenEuphoria

Re: Goto?

• Posted by Matt Lewis <matthewwalkerlewis at g??il.com> May 12, 2008
• 676 views

Jeremy Cowgar wrote:
> 
> Bernie Ryan wrote:
> > What no one understands about implementing goto is how
> > complicated it is to implement in an interpreter.
> > Maybe if someone would demonstrate how easy it is to implement;
> > then they could post the code and that could be discussed on EUforum.
> 
> The front end code is pretty easy actually, at first glance. Now, what may be
> difficult is what I mentioned in the post in regards to the for loop. Jumping
> out of a for loop is going to leave things pretty dirty, but I am certain that
> can be solved with a bit of thought. But, I do not wish to spend any time
> developing
> code that will be rejected, so I think the discussion must come first. 

What's dirty about it?  It's no different than exit.  Jumping *into* a
for loop is bad juju.

Matt