The final word on GOTO (Don't I wis

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL
Sun Sep 17 10:37:25 AEST 1989


In article <225800222 at uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald at uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>I would consider a goto harmful IF and ONLY IF it produced a bug in a program.

The argument against use of GOTO is that it does lead to unreliable code.
I think this is indisputable for uncontrolled use of GOTO.
Some tightly-disciplined uses seem to me to not get in the way of
verifying code correctness.



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