OpenEuphoria

Re: Conceptual problem solved by GOTO

• Posted by Jeremy Cowgar <jeremy at ?owgar?com> Jun 06, 2008
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Jeremy Cowgar wrote:
> 
> I would like to see someone change the euphoria translator to output C code
> that does not use C goto's. I have seen other translators as well that use
> goto's
> extensively. I think it's a great approach. Easy on the translator, easy on
> the resulting compiler. 
> 
> Now, I want to take my own domain language used for hospital billings and
> initial
> hospital claim auditing and translate that to Euphoria, but can I? Not easily.
> It's far easier to just translate to C and use gotos. Now, why not just
> do/keep
> that? Because it would be far, far easier to use Euphoria as the final
> language
> instead of dealing with users changing the domain language, triggering a
> compilation,
> swapping in the .so, etc...
> 

That was suppose to say it would be far easier with Euphoria that has goto's...

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Jeremy Cowgar
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