OpenEuphoria

Re: New keyword added: continue

• Posted by ken mortenson <kenneth_john at y?hoo.co?> May 28, 2008
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Jeremy Cowgar wrote:
> 
> 
> > You said: I'm concerned about having someday to maintain code that someone
> > wrote
> > badly using goto.
> >
> 
> <snip>
>  
> > Let's assume the concern is not overplayed. Now how would that situation be 
> > happening?
> >
> > 1/ Because the Eu interpreter or the standard lib uses goto. We mat 
> > reasonably agree not to let this happen. After all, they are in the greater 
> > common denominator of Eu, which dosn't include goto.
> 
> I've heard a few people say this and it does not make sense to me. I am not
> arguing for or against goto but here is my simple observation on the above
> statement.
> 
> If goto is not good for the standard libraries than it's not good for the
> language.
> If it is good for the language than it's good for the standard library. I see
> no exceptions to this rule. Why would we add language functionality and then
> ban it from use? If we have the idea it should be banned, then it shouldn't
> be added! If we think it should be added then we cannot/should not ban it's
> use!

That's just too logical Jeremy.  What are you, some kind of fanatic?