Goto [was RE: Safety over efficiency guideline]

From: Kevin Atkinson (kevinatk_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-06-09 12:30:28

On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Borgerding, Mark A. wrote:

> (Except for 'goto'. No
> one's ever convinced me of a reason for that in C++, except in legacy code.
> )

Well I occasional use goto to break out of a nested loop as C/C++ does not 
allow labeling of blocks like Perl does.  Now in Perl the goto should be
never used and infact is Perl the goto is very inefficient.

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Kevin Atkinson
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