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From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Fetch string from comment
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2025 19:03:03 GMT
Organization: Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien
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mhx@iae.nl (mhx) writes:
>On Wed, 5 Mar 2025 16:50:13 +0000, Anton Ertl wrote:
>
>> Does it make a difference in understandability whether you implement a
>> state transition as "goto state123" or in the Dijkstra-compatible
>> "state = state123"?  So why should I care whether it is gotoless?
>
>The syntax is fine (the one is just as unreadable as the other) but what
>about the implementation?

The argument about avoiding gotos have been along the lines that the
goto makes it hard to understand the program, not that there was a
problem with implementing it.

>I couldn't locate the pertinent subject at
>https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/welcome.html, do you have a hint?

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/362929.362947

- anton
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