Re: How to eliminate GOTO?

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From: halasz
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 03:39

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halasz@caip.rutgers.edu wrote:
: 
:      iLoop: for(i=0;i<10;i++)
:        for(j=0;j<10;j++){
:          /*  some other code here to set condition */
:          if(condition) break iLoop;
:        } 

In article <41gnhu$qfj@eri2.erinet.com>, jab@PROBLEM_WITH_YOUR_MAIL_GATEWAY_FILE (Jerone A. Bowers) writes
> 
>   	for(i=0;i<10;i++)
>            for(j=0;j<10;j++)
> 	   {
>                    /*  some other code here to set condition */
>               if(condition) goto iLoop;
>            }
>     iLoop:
>       .....
> 
> Pretty much the same thing are they not?  

Not from the viewpoint of program-upkeep: a label for "break" is valid
nowhere but before the loop or "switch" that has "break" within it.
And if the label is syntacticlie different from that which "goto" uzes,
the sight of a "break"/"continue" label lets the programmer look onlie
within the construct.  In anie case, control passes onlie to after the
loop or "switch", and "goto" can pass control aniewhither

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Subject: Re: How to eliminate GOTO?
Date: 24 Aug 1995 23:39:34 -0400
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