Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
From: manni DOT heumann AT gmx DOT de (Manni Heumann)
Subject: Re: BREAKing out of a nested loop
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djgpp AT delorie DOT com wrote:
>>Try 'goto'.  You'll love it.  They never taught you about it in
>>school.
>
>EEK! There are reasons for this! GoTo is "forbidden"! Nicer is to put this
>into a function
>that returns TRUE/FALSE. So, as soon as a collition is detected, you jump
>out of the
>function with false. This will break the loops. Might be considered cheating
>but it
>helps for making the code more usable so there is a good fix to this
>problem.
>

Name just one of those reasons agains goto, other then "it looks like 
BASIC and real hardcore C coders don't use that kiddy stuff."!

I didn't yet see one solution in this thread, that was as easy to read 
as a simple little goto. Checking a flag for every for, building the 
whole nest in a function and return? Picture yourself reading that 
code! Goto will also give you the benefit of feeling superior to the 
moron who still uses goto after all this years:-)

Back to the beginning: Name one reason against using goto. At least 
name the law the forbids using goto.

Come on, convince me!


--

Manni

Life would be much easier if I had the source code.