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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: The final word on GOTO (Don't I wis
Message-ID: <11091@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 17 Sep 89 00:37:25 GMT
References: <20324@<1989Sep14> <225800222@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <225800222@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>I would consider a goto harmful IF and ONLY IF it produced a bug in a program.

The argument against use of GOTO is that it does lead to unreliable code.
I think this is indisputable for uncontrolled use of GOTO.
Some tightly-disciplined uses seem to me to not get in the way of
verifying code correctness.