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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: gotos
Message-ID: <7681@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 13 Apr 88 23:41:27 GMT
References: <1988Apr11.201934.20594@utzoo.uucp> <451@goofy.megatest.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <451@goofy.megatest.UUCP> djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) writes:
>Mr Spencer, Mr. David Brown, and the loquacious Mr. Gwyn all say straight 
>out that I am an advocate of the use of the goto statement.

There you go, putting (wrong) words in other peoples' mouths.

>You three, Spencer, Brown, and Gwyn, hold that it is proper for you to 
>publicly criticize the software produced by the company which employs me, 
>on the basis of a few lines that I wrote here.

Ditto.  I merely maintained that it is appropriate for Henry to
think poorly of a company that publicly announces its liberal use
of GOTO with apparent pride.  If that's not what you intended to do,
then Henry and I must have misunderstood you.

I use GOTO myself, but only in a disciplined way and only when there
are sound technical reasons for so doing.  (Branching to a common
section of error-recovery code at the end of a function body is the
most usual situation.)  But I'm not going to wear a lapel pin that
proclaims "I USE GOTOS"!

My, how touchy people get when they think that money is involved.