do you use goto? [modified]

[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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fboule wrote:

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

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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.

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[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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[BadKarma]

Thanks allot leppie :mad: now i'm forced to make jumps :laugh:

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[John M Drescher]

I have less than 5 gotos in the 500K+ lines of code I have written in the last 10 years so its quite rare for me.

John

[Nemanja Trifunovic]

Pakl wrote:

I am interested if you are using goto's

No, but I reserve the right to use it and not feel bad.

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[Dan Neely]

if uses goto internally. while uses goto internally. for uses goto internally. function calls use goto internally. Your CPU only knows goto internally. There's a reason why modern programming languages provide a collection of wrappers to hide goto from you.

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