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From: utility@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca (Ronald BODKIN)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: if (e1) return e2; [else] s1;
Message-ID: <2637@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca>
Date: 26 Mar 90 22:29:52 GMT
References: <887@dino.cs.iastate.edu> <1990Mar24.010629.12764@caen.engin.umich.edu> <10624@alice.UUCP>
Reply-To: utility@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca (Ronald BODKIN)
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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In article <10624@alice.UUCP> ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig) writes:
>Some people take the view that except at the end of a function,
>`return' is just a funny way of spelling `goto.'
Is this reallly a clearer and neater way of coding:
int foo()
{
	int ret;
	if (cond1) {
		/* do stuff */
		ret=1;
	}
	else {
		/* do other stuff */
		ret=2;
	}
	return ret;
}

This is slower and more cumbersome, IMHO.  After all, while and until
and for are also funny ways of spelling goto...
	Ron