do you use goto? [modified]

[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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[Alan Balkany]

I haven't used a goto in 25 years of programming, but I like the option to be available in case I need it. It's been claimed that a goto is useful for exiting deeply-nested code when an error is detected. But in the evolution of my programming style, my methods have become much shorter and only rarely have deep nesting. I can only think of two occasions a goto was necessary. One was when I encountered a bug in IBM's PL/I compiler back in the 1980s, and I needed a goto to force sequential execution. (The next statement wasn't being executed.) The other time was in grad school in the 1990s when I was implementing a system that translated a flow graph drawn on the screen into C code. Each mechanism (a box on the screen representing a library component) was assigned a label, and gotos were part of the automatically-generated template for sequencing their execution. A goto would also be useful for a rapid fix under time pressure. It's good that gotos are discouraged. They're easy and the temptation to use them is great for that reason. (I used them constantly in BASIC when I first learned to program.) But code is already complex enough without making it more complex with abrupt changes in flow.

[leppie]

Haha, I didnt mean it like that, but go ahead :)

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[fboule]

It was only a simple example. It could be a more complex loop, like for a user menu or something else...

[Roger Wright]

I haven't used a GOTO in a long time, though it was perfectly natural to use it when there was little else available. Considering that I started with JP, JZ, JNZ, etc, GOTO seemed a logical next step. Now that modern languages include so many more functional constructs, it would be difficult to find a reason for using GOTO. I suspect that, if the need existed, it would be due to timing/memory constraints and I'd be smarter to go back to Assembly code to optimize the routine. That being said, I don't consider the use of GOTO bad form, if it's appropriate to the problem at hand - a state machine implementation, for instance.

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[Jorgen Andersson]

Break?

[PIEBALDconsult]

An occasional goto case in C#. Otherwise not since I advanced from BASIC.

[Robert Royall]

I've had to use GOTO for programming Access/VB6 forms when doing error handling. It was basically a poor man's version of the Finally block, used to clean up objects or database connections/recordsets. I don't think I've ever had any other instances where it was appropriate.

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[enhzflep]

short jmps, long jmps, near jmps or far jmps?