From: Stefan Rusterholz <apeiros@...>
Date: 2008-12-25T20:47:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Go LABEL

Bertram Scharpf wrote:
> Hi Xx,
> 
> You should be glad not to be tempted practising this dangerous
> programming style. I did not miss the goto statement in any
> language for about twenty-five years. Be confident.
> 
> Merry Christmas to all!
> 
> Bertram

I used goto to implement a parser for ISO 8601 (in C, generated by ruby) 
and it is very handy for that. It's just too easy to implement a 
statemachine with gotos. But besides generated code (which isn't 
intended to be very readable) I do agree that goto is a bad choice.
I think it's just as bad to call a tool all-evil as to use a tool in the 
wrong place.

Regards & merry christmas
Stefan

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