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From: al@gtx.com (0732)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: gotos
Message-ID: <619@gtx.com>
Date: 11 Apr 88 21:03:53 GMT
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Reply-To: al@gtx.UUCP (Al Filipski)
Organization: GTX Corporation, Phoenix
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->to the goto?  (And the break, which is a goto by another name.)  E.g.:

a quibble here. a break is a "goto by another name" as much as a while
loop is a "goto by another name".  In fact a break is a considerably
restricted form of a goto, and it is this restriction that makes it
easier to read and understand, and not at all comparable to those awful
unrestricted goto's.

By the way, this discussion reminds me of a letter that appeared a few
years ago in CACM.  ,It was from a man in Japan named Mr. Goto, and
it was a complaint about how everyone was always trying to eliminate him.

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