Thanks Vijay for sharing these. Very informative. Thanks Naga > On 15-Jan-2015, at 5:38 pm, Vijay Bellur <vbellur@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On 01/15/2015 12:13 PM, Nagaprasad Sathyanarayana wrote: >> In a quest to find why good programmers are wary of the "Go To" >> statement, came across this interesting article by /Edsger W. Dijkstra/ . >> >> http://www.u.arizona.edu/~rubinson/copyright_violations/Go_To_Considered_Harmful.html. > > goto statements that cause one to go back & forth across the code are annoying to me. However, if goto statements are used to return control from a common point within a function, they enhance readability and also help in ensuring that we perform necessary cleanup/terminal actions for a function in a single place. > > It is to be noted that Dijkstra's article appeared before C was invented. If you are interested in understanding more about goto, Knuth's paper titled Structured Programming with go to statements [1] and a lkml thread on the same [2] can be helpful. > > Cheers, > Vijay > > [1] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=356640&dl=ACM&coll=DL&CFID=472165232&CFTOKEN=27447667 (needs access to ACM) > > [2] http://koblents.com/Ches/Links/Month-Mar-2013/20-Using-Goto-in-Linux-Kernel-Code/ > > _______________________________________________ > Gluster-devel mailing list > Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel > > _______________________________________________ Gluster-devel mailing list Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel
