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From: Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
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Subject: Re: goto considered helpful (Was: question about linker)
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2024 09:29:43 -0800
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Rosario19 <Ros@invalid.invalid> writes:

> On Tue, 24 Dec 2024 09:05:27 -0800, Tim Rentsch <> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> 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.