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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Goto's are okay
Keywords: goto
Message-ID: <1991Jan27.185044.19856@uwasa.fi>
Date: 27 Jan 91 18:50:44 GMT
References: <2802@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU> <1991Jan21.134342@cs.utwente.nl> <2427@bnlux0.bnl.gov> <1991Jan27.074528.23487@tygra.UUCP>
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In article <1991Jan27.074528.23487@tygra.UUCP> dave@tygra.UUCP (David Conrad) writes:
:
>I hope you see what I'm getting at.  All structured programming constructs
>can be emulated with goto's, and can be thought of etc.  But they have the
>advantage that the compiler does the work for you so you can't screw it up
>by adding/subtracting lines.  That's the difference between structured and
>spaghetti code.
:

I may be misinterpreting your implication, but as the guilty party
of commencing the debate, let me again point out 

repeat
   using gotos             != spaghetti code
   not using gotos         != writing well structured programming
   careless usage of gotos  = spaghetti code
until false

The heat produced in the discussions obviously emanate from the fact
that these relations are not transitive. 

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