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From: mark@cygnet.CYGNETSYSTEMS (Mark Quattrocchi)
Newsgroups: misc.misc,comp.misc
Subject: Re: The "evil" GOTO (Was: 25 Years of BASIC)
Keywords: Guinness, phlegm, mackerel, intestines
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Date: 5 May 89 22:08:28 GMT
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In article <24047@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth) writes:
>>Indeed, this is a pretty bad example of where a goto would be useful,
>>because you are simply illustrating what the purpose of the C do ...
>>while construct is for:
>>
>>do {
>>   fprintf(stdout, "Enter your sex (<m> or <f> only): ");
>>   fflush(stdout);
>>   fgets(stdin, sex, 2);
>>   fflush(stdin);
>>} while ((*sex != 'm') && (*sex != 'f'));
>
>First, your C compiler must have a rather weird stdio library if it
>requires you to to do explicit flushing.
>
>Second, why not
>
>	while(1)	{
>		fputs("Sex (m or f) ",stdout);
>		gets(ls);
>		if(ls[0] == 'm')	return(ls[0]);
>		else
>		if(ls[0] == 'f')	return(ls[0]);
>		}
>
>as a subroutine?

This is great! Now we have two incorrect versions. Open eyes, read original,
duplicate. I suppose they did this because the program would be twice as long
if they made it compatible with the original.

Sorry, just testing our newsfeed (yeah that's it).