COTD: The dangers of GOTO

Chris Maunder

cheers, Chris Maunder

Malcolm Smart

I suppose I will lose my gold status now..... Repost![^]

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Matthew Faithfull

I'm really glad he didn't use goto.net. Being non deterministically destructed by a managed veloceraptor is just to horrible to contemplate.:-D

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Jon Sagara

So glad I had already finished my coffee before reading that. :laugh:

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JimmyRopes

Malcolm Smart wrote:

I suppose I will lose my gold status now.....

What gold status. Have you checked your status lately? :doh: Additionally, you will be stripped of your gold epaulets, your sword broken and you are banished from the kingdom! :~

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Paul Conrad

Jon Sagara wrote:

I had already finished my coffee before reading that.

I was between swigs of coffee. I remember my high school BASIC (old Apple IIe's :rolleyes:) teacher docking points for the use of GOTO's.

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Tim Carmichael

When I was in college taking COBOL, there was only one instance where we were allowed to use a GOTO. One teacher would give you a 0 (zero) on the assignment if he found a GOTO that didn't need to be there. Tim

ednrgc

See ???? It works that fast!!!!!!!

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Ahh.. a rare repost from the top. :)

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baloneyman

All my GOTOs need to be there...

Paul Conrad

I was thinking all GOTO statements should go to a /dev/nul on some Linux box sitting on the dark side of the Moon :rolleyes:

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Steve Floyd

It never was about the GOTO. It is really the Come-From that gets you in trouble... There is a one-to-many relationship there that makes it hard to go backwards. srf