OpenEuphoria

Re: Good Use of GOTO

• Posted by Jeremy Cowgar <jeremy at ?ow?ar.com> Jun 06, 2008
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c.k.lester wrote:
> 
> It has never been demonstrated that a Euphoria developer needs the ability.
>

CK, did you actually read any of the links I gave in a previous post?
 
> > Those developers (again who are no dummies) decided that goto was far
> > superior. Please tell me why a euphoria developer should not also have
> > that ability?
> 
> Because a GOTO in C might increase performance by up to 50%.
> 
> Show me similar performance benefits for Euphoria.
>

Huh? I've said 1,000 times function calls are expensive and *no one* will say
they are not. Goto can avoid many cases of function calls in critical situations.
 
> If you can't, then GOTO should not be added because it's just useless bloat
> and at least won't be around to trip programmers up.

Trip programmers up? Seriously, I'm kind of getting tired of playing this game.
I've said a million times (not 1,000) that programmers can abuse if, while, for,
functions, procedures, includes, etc... If a programmer is going to abuse goto,
they have plenty of other things they will abuse as well. I think you are still
paying attention to the document about why goto is bad that was published in
1968. Languages have changed a bit since then.

Can you please spend some time and read the links I posted previously and then
continue to comment if you wish?

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Jeremy Cowgar
http://jeremy.cowgar.com