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From: jha@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Jamie Andrews)
Newsgroups: misc.misc,comp.misc
Subject: Re: The "evil" GOTO (Was: 25 Years of BASIC)
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Date: 5 May 89 10:54:10 GMT
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In article <1814@ubu.warwick.UUCP> mirk@uk.ac.warwick.cs (Mike Taylor) writes:
>Why make the test twice?  Huh?  Huh?  Answer me that, all you obsessed
>anti-GOTO campaigners.  The *natural* way to express the above is:
>
>	printf ("Enter your sex: ");
>LABEL:	gets (sex);
>	if (sex != "m" && sex != "f") {
>		printf ("<m> or <f> only: ");
>		GOTO LABEL;
>	}


Death to GOTO!

	printf ("Enter your sex: ");
	while (1) {
		gets (sex);
		if (sex == "m" || sex == "f")
			break;
		else
			printf ("<m> or <f> only: ");
	}

Long live break!

--J.