Re: goto considered helpful (Was: question about linker)

Rosario19 <Ros@invalid.invalid> writes:

On Tue, 24 Dec 2024 09:05:27 -0800, Tim Rentsch <> wrote:
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In my view using goto should always be done on a case-by-case basis
and not under any general rule.  More specifically, when first
writing a function it should be written without using goto (which is
always possible).  If something about the code feels off, write it
another way, still without using goto.  Continue re-writing in this
way as long as the results are dissatisfying, up to perhaps four or
five versions (in some cases I have done a lot more than that).  In
many cases function bodies start off too large, and the code can be
simplified and clarified by breaking a function into several smaller
sub-functions;  doing that often removes any sense that goto is
needed.

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in my vew
goto it is needed because all that high level language is traslated in
the end, in easy istructions that use goto

Goto is never necessary.  I have used at least three programming
languages that didn't have goto at all.  And that's not counting
unusual languages like Prolog.