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From: jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: No goto's please (was Re: Fixing 7K pipes again)
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Date: 3 Oct 89 12:19:38 GMT
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HBO043%DJUKFA11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Christoph van Wuellen) writes:

>Since terry@SUNQUEST.UUCP mentions the PASCAL programming language in a
>recent article, i may add a comment to this discussion:

>In C, you never need a goto, since you have the exit() system call and the
>return statement. In pure PASCAL there are sitations where a goto might be
>appropriate:
>- terminating the program after an fatal error (as it is done by exit() )
>- leaving a procedure across several other structures (as it is done by
>  return)


However, most versions of Pascal do provide an exit procedure, and usually
provide a return procedure.  Some versions also allow the return procedure
to return from several procedures down (this I don't like).


JB
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