On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 13:22:47 -0700, Corey Brenner wrote:
> There is another reason for do { ... } while (0).
>
> That is, it allows you to break out of the block
> early if some condition is met, without defining
> a label and using goto. Consider:
>
> do {
> if (foo)
> break;
>
> some();
> thing();
> which();
> takes();
> forever();
> } while (0);
A goto is actualy more readable once you get more than two levels of
indentation involved. Because to see where a break goes, you have to
inspect what is before *opening* brace to see on which *closing* brace
it will jump. While with goto you just search for the label, which is
usualy in the first column.
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