> Now, it's provable you never *NEED* a goto. On the other hand,
*judicious*
> use of goto can prevent code that is so cluttered with stuff of the form:
> if(...) {
> ...
> die_flag = 1;
> if (!die _flag) {...
>
> Pretty soon, you have die_1_flag, die_2_flag, die_3_flag and so on,
> rather than 3 or 4 "goto bail_now;".
There's always the construction:
for(;;)
{
/* do something */
if (something_failed)
break;
/* do something */
if (something_failed)
break;
...
break; /* the final break */
}
etc.
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