🚀 go-pugleaf

Zefram (A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk) wrote:
:  <halasz@caip.rutgers.edu> wrote:
: >No, we are _obliged_ to uze a "goto"ish means for quitting the
: >function,

: If the current return keyword is banned, there will be a great deal
: more use of actual gotos, just to get to the end of a function in order
: to return.  I can see code currently like

: int fn()
: {
:  int ret;
:  if(some_error_condition()) return -1;
:  /* ... */
:  return ret;
: }

: turning into

: int fn() ret
: {
:  if(some_error_condition()) { ret=-1; goto end; }
:  /* ... */
:  end:
: }

How about using the 'else' keyword:

int fn() ret
{
 if(some_error_condition()) { 
     ret=-1; 
 }else{
     /* ... */
 }
}

It is a much better way to do it anyway even in current C as it makes
maitenace simpler (consider adding code to end of function to be done
on all returns).

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