Xref: utzoo comp.lang.c:9915 comp.software-eng:516 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!pacbell!att-ih!ihnp4!ihlpf!nevin1 From: nevin1@ihlpf.ATT.COM (00704a-Liber) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.software-eng Subject: Re: State Machines, The Ultimate Goto Message-ID: <4627@ihlpf.ATT.COM> Date: 4 May 88 00:13:39 GMT References: <1988Apr8.183815.3187@utzoo.uucp> <449@goofy.megatest.UUCP> <2200@louie.udel.EDU> <587@vsi.UUCP> <27310@cca.CCA.COM> <760@dlhpedg.co.uk> <27568@cca.CCA.COM> Reply-To: nevin1@ihlpf.UUCP (00704a-Liber,N.J.) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois Lines: 19 In article <27568@cca.CCA.COM> g-rh@CCA.CCA.COM.UUCP (Richard Harter) writes: >Goto logic says leave and don't come back. Not true. For example: FOO: goto FOO; Goto logic says you can come here anytime you need to and from anywhere you want to (within limits, of course). >The prescription against goto's really means -- don't mix >the two types of structure. I think I agree with you (I'll have to ponder this a little while longer). -- _ __ NEVIN J. LIBER ..!ihnp4!ihlpf!nevin1 (312) 510-6194 ' ) ) "The secret compartment of my ring I fill / / _ , __o ____ with an Underdog super-energy pill." / (_