On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:53:42PM +0200, Jakub Narebski wrote: > Note also that Dijkstra wrote in seminal article "Go To Statement > Considered Harmful" that the problem with abused 'goto' is that it > compilcates and muddles control flow of program. But there are > legitimate uses of 'goto' that make the program simpler to understand, > and not harder,... among those is handling exceptions. Also, Dijkstra is well-known for statements that were intentionally very radical to stir a real debate in the sleepy academic circles and probably even Dijkstra was not as radical as people would think based on some of his statements. For another side of the goto debate, I really recommend reading the somewhat dated, but still interesting paper [Donald Knuth, "Structured programming with goto statements," Computing Surveys, December 1974]. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis When I feel like exercising, I just lie down until the feeling goes away. -- xed_over -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html