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From: steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: goto's in 'C'
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Date: Tue, 22-Jan-85 14:45:52 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 22 14:45:52 1985
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>
> >The incidence of the "goto" in C code is so rare anyway, I dare say
> >we could abolish it altogether (replacing it with BLISS's "leave")
> >and not miss the loss. (I certainly never missed it in BLISS.)
> 
> It is extremely useful, though,
> for 'hardcoding' finite state machines. 

	Boy ain't that the truth.  I assign the task of rewriting
lex and yacc so that their output does not contain goto's to the
person who suggested they be abolished.    A typical yacc
output has hundreds of goto's.  It is not a bad thing when
is is done automatically.

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