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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: goto's in C: an opinion...
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Date: Sun, 2-Aug-87 20:33:46 EDT
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> Also, the transitional tables have one very good advance over this approach
> which is, it requires the programmer to enumerate all posible actions
> associated with every state-input pair...

I'd like to second this comment; I had a recent experience with such a
situation.  That code would *never* have been right if I hadn't converted
it to a table-driven approach, which forced an organized, careful analysis
of each and every case rather than "add code until it seems to work".
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