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Re: GO TO
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Keven Miller <[log in to unmask]>
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Keven Miller <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 12 Mar 2004 07:58:19 -0700
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For me, GOTO is just another tool in a programming language.
Depending onthe skill of the artist to use it wisely.

Besides, when it finally gets down to machine code, you cannot
get away from the jmp statement.

In FORTRAN, I tried to have a standard of GOTOing a CONTINUE
statement. So often have I had bugs where the end of a DO loop was
some non-CONTINUE statement, that was also a target of a GOTO
from outside the loop.
Fortran probably should have a ENDFOR statement -- and maybe
it does now in FTN/77.

Keven Miller
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