Oh nooo! (gotos)

Dave Jones djones at megatest.UUCP
Fri Sep 8 11:51:29 AEST 1989


>From article <147 at egrunix.UUCP>, by schemers at egrunix.UUCP (Roland Schemers):
>>   While we are on the subject of loops, how do people feel about the
>>   practice of using #define to "extend" the language?
>>

I don't like 'em.

I call such things, "SLM"'s, which stands for "silly little macros".
Whether or not a goto is a Good Thing, or a Bad Thing, it is not
improved by hiding it so that some unfortunate code reader has to
track it down inside a macro in some #include file.



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