do you use goto? [modified]

[Vikram A Punathambekar]

:groaaaaan: But that warranted a 5! :-D

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[fboule]

My opinion in using gotos is like C programming: it is up to the programmer to code properly. Some are so skilled to write ugly C code. If used properly, goto can could may might have a place in our hearts. E.g. the MS-DOS batch script below (tested on WinXP):

@echo off
set i=0

:loop
set /a i=%i%+1
echo Loop %i%
if not %i% == 10 goto :loop

[Graham Shanks]

Graham Bradshaw wrote:

Not explicitly, anyway. If you've ever used a C break or continue, implicitly you have, since break and continue are simply goto's with an implicit label that is just outside or inside the current end of scope.

By that reckoning anyone using an if ... then ... else is also using a goto. The argument is not that "jump" statements in a program are not required (in any non-trivial program they are unavoidable), but that structured programming constructs rather than the goto statment lead to more understandable programs. As Dijkstra said in his original letter[^] - "The go to statement as it stands is just too primitive, it is too much an invitation to make a mess of one's program." I haven't used a goto statement since I gave up programming in Basic

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[Marc Clifton]

As in "go to h***" when I see someone using goto. Marc

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[Rajesh R Subramanian]

Again, not really. I've encountered situations (even recently) where I felt that a few goto statements will save me from writing a buttload of ugly nested if-if-if statements.

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[Gene OK]

Doesn't bother me at all to use goto. I haven't found a c++ compiler that doesn't support them. They're not evil, just one more programming construct. If it saves me 100 or 10 or even one line of code, I'll use a goto without thinking twice.

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[Rage]

fboule wrote:

the MS-DOS batch script below

If under XP, then use a for loop to do that.

~RaGE();

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[Robert Rohde]

Philip Laureano wrote:

Rule #1: Don't use goto. Rule #2: Know when to break Rule #1. Rule #3: Never goto #2.

Do you like recursion? :) Rule #4: Know when to break Rule #3. Rule #5: Never goto #4 Rule #6: Know when to break Rule #5. ... Robert

[Oakman]

"Switch" is just "on x GOTO" so, yeah, all the time.

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[Roger Alsing 0]

In periods or on a weekly basis?

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[leppie]

Apply as needed :) (once in 6 months or so).

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[Vasudevan Deepak Kumar]

Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:

if-if-if statements

Wouldn't evaluating an expression upfront to a variable and then using a switch-case provide an elegant in that case?

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[BadKarma]

Burn him, he is a witch ;P

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[Jamie Nordmeyer]

The only time I've ever used goto was in the QBasic days, and in Visual Basic when I was first learning that language. I've never used it in any C flavor language, and never allow it when doing code reviews at work.

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[Rajesh R Subramanian]

1. switch works only with integral types and so it cannot be used everywhere. 2. switch uses goto internally.

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[leppie]

And now I will turn you into a frog! POOF!

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[BadKarma]

under any circumstance use goto I use the following

#define BeamMeUp(_goto) goto _goto

int AtPlanet()
{
bool bToDangerous = true;

if(bToDangerous)
  BeamMeUp(scotty);
else
  Fight();

scotty:
  return ToEnterprise();

}

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[leckey 0]

Goto's are evil and real programmers never use them.

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[Ri Qen Sin]

I use label: … goto label whenever I have to use while (true) { … }

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