OpenEuphoria

Re: voting on GOTO

• Posted by Lucius L. Hilley III <euphoria at ?n?mar.com> Jun 04, 2008
• 803 views

Jeremy Cowgar wrote:
> 
> Chris Bensler wrote:
> >  
> > It matters for justification. Would you buy a car if you know you are only
> > going
> > to use it one day in a year and you could just take the bus or a taxi, or
> > even
> > rent a car and it would still be more economical? What if you don't even
> > know
> > what you might need a car for but someone just says you have to have a car
> > in
> > case you might need it someday?
> > 
> > .. if you were singing badly and I was your neighbour it might be a problem
> > :D
> > 
> 
> Chris,
> 
> One could say:
> 
> Would you accept a free Lamborgini, all expenses paid, insurance and all as
> well as a place to store it and a whistle that when you blow it, the car will
> come to you in an instant when you need it? Even though you have a car already
> that you can still use or even take the bus if you wish?
> 
> Such is goto. It comes for free, no expenses what-so-ever. It will be out of
> your way, but one day if you want to use it, it's there in an instant.
> 
> --
> Jeremy Cowgar
> <a href="http://jeremy.cowgar.com">http://jeremy.cowgar.com</a>

See, this is a place where I get to prove my sitting on the fence
for the moment.

GOTO is not a car the comes for free.  Others, may and will, use goto
in their future code.  This means it takes up space.  Meaning it may
get in the way of some peoples progress.  Its existance may or may
not slow down the interpreter.  Much of that is determined based
upon placemnet and structure.  And of course placemnet and structure
is dictated by what previously existed and must be displaced to
allow fot the injection of GOTO into the language.

    Lucius L. Hilley III - Unkmar