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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Usage of goto's
Message-ID: <11403@alice.UUCP>
Date: 29 Sep 90 19:47:47 GMT
References: <1990Sep28.121230.17767@NCoast.ORG>
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In article <1990Sep28.121230.17767@NCoast.ORG>, ramsey@NCoast.ORG (Cedric Ramsey) writes:

> Hello once again peoplekind. I have a question about goto's. We all
> know that there usage is taboo in any language but what better way 
> do we have to implement finite state machines. A switch statement ?

Please, please, please -- before saying anything about this, go read

	D. E. Knuth:  Structured Programming with Goto Statements

	ACM Computing Surveys, January 1974 (I think)

Almost everything you're thinking about saying has been covered there.
Let's not rehash the whole discussion again.
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				--Andrew Koenig
				  ark@europa.att.com