Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Re^2: gotos (actually: **Apology**)
Message-ID: <1988Apr24.004842.3251@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <2586@geac.UUCP>, <3950003@hplvly.HP.COM>
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 88 00:48:42 GMT

> When faced with multiple occurances of a common section
> of code, one has four choices (any others?):
>   1) some sort of subroutine,
>   2) replicating the code in multiple places,
>   3) some type of big, ugly conditional statement to
>      bring unite the occurances,
>   4) goto.

Remember that there are two separate issues here:  what you write, and the
code the compiler generates for it.  With modern compilers, the two are
often quite different.
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