I wouldn't say gotos are stupid, dangerous maybe but not stupid. I think it's a more natural way to move around as it's closer to english. However, it can get you into quite a bit of trouble so it is recommended that you not use them. So much so that many people are afraid of using a goto and refuse to use them under any circumstance. I've never really had a need to use them as most of the time a nice loop with some if/then/else statements will do and makes debugging easier but I wouldn't not use a goto just because they are bad. I would just triple check that portion of the code.

So why is it bizzare and stupid? You never really gave an explanation other than it can jump anywhere.... well yeah, that's kindof the point. Kindof like if we need to start over and reinit stuff goto the beginning. If we are in the middle of a program that is not designed to do something like this would you rather 1) rewrite your code and put a bunch of checks to see if we need to start or 2) put in a goto BEGINING:? Of course where you run into trouble is if something is open and you don't properly close it etc... but if you clean up before jumping it's not a problem.

In reply to Re: Re: Duff's Device by MCS
in thread Duff's Device by davido

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