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  • C CARPETBURNER

    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
    string str = "Even exception occur again in catch block still finally block is Working";
    try
    {
    throw new IndexOutOfRangeException();
    }
    catch
    {
    goto Hello;
    throw new IndexOutOfRangeException();

    }
    finally
    {
    Response.Redirect("Error.aspx?str="+ str);
    }
    Hello:
    Response.Write("Finally Skiped!");
    }

    http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/DotNetBulletQuestions.aspx?msg=2764693#xx2764693xx[^] A goto in a try/catch/finally block... urrrghh!

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    CPallini
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    My 5, that code is pure Horror. Anyway (I made a test) the goto statement it is ininfluent. BTW I didn't know C# has goto statement, is there a reason to have it in such a language? :)

    If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
    This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke
    [My articles]

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      My 5, that code is pure Horror. Anyway (I made a test) the goto statement it is ininfluent. BTW I didn't know C# has goto statement, is there a reason to have it in such a language? :)

      If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
      This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke
      [My articles]

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      Member 4072299
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      For me, the GOTO statement is to be removed completely. When you got to situations where you need to skip a finally, you should better rethink your design/architecture and your code. A clean rewrite of your code and your conditions and tests let you avoid situations like this easily and cleanly!!! ________________________________________ http://www.glyphart.com neat icons and glyphs for websites and applications

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        For me, the GOTO statement is to be removed completely. When you got to situations where you need to skip a finally, you should better rethink your design/architecture and your code. A clean rewrite of your code and your conditions and tests let you avoid situations like this easily and cleanly!!! ________________________________________ http://www.glyphart.com neat icons and glyphs for websites and applications

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        CPallini
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        You cannot skip (at leat that way) finally. On the overall I agree with you. I don't see any reason (maybe there are...) to live the goto statement in C#. IMHO: - In C the goto statement makes perfectly sense. - In C++ it makes seem because of C compatibility. :)

        If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
        This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke
        [My articles]

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        • C CPallini

          My 5, that code is pure Horror. Anyway (I made a test) the goto statement it is ininfluent. BTW I didn't know C# has goto statement, is there a reason to have it in such a language? :)

          If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
          This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke
          [My articles]

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          BadKarma
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          CPallini wrote:

          BTW I didn't know C# has goto statement, is there a reason to have it in such a language?

          A reason ? Maybe no, but you could need one if you use a switch.

          switch(iData)
          {
          case 0:
          case 1:
           // do stuff for 0 and 1
           break;
          case 2:
           // do stuff for 2
           goto 3;
          case 3:
           // do stuff for 2 and 3
           break;
          }
          

          Learn from the mistakes of others, you may not live long enough to make them all yourself.

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          • C CPallini

            My 5, that code is pure Horror. Anyway (I made a test) the goto statement it is ininfluent. BTW I didn't know C# has goto statement, is there a reason to have it in such a language? :)

            If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
            This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke
            [My articles]

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            Dan Neely
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            Search the lounge for prior floggings of this subject. There are (very) rare cases when a goto can actually make the code more readable. "Because otherwise I'd have a half dozen levels of if/else indentation in [a 1000 line VBA function]" isn't one of them. :mad: :doh: :omg: :wtf: :mad: :((

            Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall

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            • C CARPETBURNER

              protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
              {
              string str = "Even exception occur again in catch block still finally block is Working";
              try
              {
              throw new IndexOutOfRangeException();
              }
              catch
              {
              goto Hello;
              throw new IndexOutOfRangeException();

              }
              finally
              {
              Response.Redirect("Error.aspx?str="+ str);
              }
              Hello:
              Response.Write("Finally Skiped!");
              }

              http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/DotNetBulletQuestions.aspx?msg=2764693#xx2764693xx[^] A goto in a try/catch/finally block... urrrghh!

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              PIEBALDconsult
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              That code was written simply to make a point, it's not "real" code, so it doesn't qualify as a Coding Horror.

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              • B BadKarma

                CPallini wrote:

                BTW I didn't know C# has goto statement, is there a reason to have it in such a language?

                A reason ? Maybe no, but you could need one if you use a switch.

                switch(iData)
                {
                case 0:
                case 1:
                 // do stuff for 0 and 1
                 break;
                case 2:
                 // do stuff for 2
                 goto 3;
                case 3:
                 // do stuff for 2 and 3
                 break;
                }
                

                Learn from the mistakes of others, you may not live long enough to make them all yourself.

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                MidwestLimey
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                #8

                Yeah, the poor mans drop through.

                Bar fomos edo pariyart gedeem, agreo eo dranem abal edyero eyrem kalm kareore

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                • B BadKarma

                  CPallini wrote:

                  BTW I didn't know C# has goto statement, is there a reason to have it in such a language?

                  A reason ? Maybe no, but you could need one if you use a switch.

                  switch(iData)
                  {
                  case 0:
                  case 1:
                   // do stuff for 0 and 1
                   break;
                  case 2:
                   // do stuff for 2
                   goto 3;
                  case 3:
                   // do stuff for 2 and 3
                   break;
                  }
                  

                  Learn from the mistakes of others, you may not live long enough to make them all yourself.

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                  Lost User
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                  #9

                  o really ?? i think it can be used like this : switch(iData) { case 0: case 1: // do stuff for 0 and 1 break; case 2: // do stuff for 2 case 3: // do stuff for 2 and 3 break; } if the break statement is missing, it go through next case ..

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                    o really ?? i think it can be used like this : switch(iData) { case 0: case 1: // do stuff for 0 and 1 break; case 2: // do stuff for 2 case 3: // do stuff for 2 and 3 break; } if the break statement is missing, it go through next case ..

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                    CPallini
                    wrote on last edited by
                    #10

                    It is NOT C/C++, my friend, it is C# ;P

                    Juraj Suchan wrote:

                    case 0: case 1: // do stuff for 0 and 1 break;

                    Fine: It is allowed.

                    Juraj Suchan wrote:

                    case 2: // do stuff for 2 case 3: // do stuff for 2 and 3 break;

                    That's not allowed in C# (well, in fact, it is allowed as it stands, with just comments :-D ). :)

                    If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
                    This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke
                    [My articles]

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                    • C CPallini

                      It is NOT C/C++, my friend, it is C# ;P

                      Juraj Suchan wrote:

                      case 0: case 1: // do stuff for 0 and 1 break;

                      Fine: It is allowed.

                      Juraj Suchan wrote:

                      case 2: // do stuff for 2 case 3: // do stuff for 2 and 3 break;

                      That's not allowed in C# (well, in fact, it is allowed as it stands, with just comments :-D ). :)

                      If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
                      This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke
                      [My articles]

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                      Lost User
                      wrote on last edited by
                      #11

                      ou .. am I blind? :) sorry

                      VirtualVoid**.NET**

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                      • C CPallini

                        My 5, that code is pure Horror. Anyway (I made a test) the goto statement it is ininfluent. BTW I didn't know C# has goto statement, is there a reason to have it in such a language? :)

                        If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
                        This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke
                        [My articles]

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                        Super Lloyd
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                        #12

                        I like this reason as well void foobar() { // blah blah blah for(...) { // blablabla for(..) { // foo foo foo if(bar) goto end; } } end: // beep bop a loola }

                        A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station.... _________________________________________________________ My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.

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                          I like this reason as well void foobar() { // blah blah blah for(...) { // blablabla for(..) { // foo foo foo if(bar) goto end; } } end: // beep bop a loola }

                          A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station.... _________________________________________________________ My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.

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                          CPallini
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                          You may throw an exception for that. :)

                          If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
                          This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke
                          [My articles]

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                            I like this reason as well void foobar() { // blah blah blah for(...) { // blablabla for(..) { // foo foo foo if(bar) goto end; } } end: // beep bop a loola }

                            A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station.... _________________________________________________________ My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.

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                            Thomas Weller 0
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                            A simple 'break' would do the job, no need for 'goto'... :^) Regards Thomas

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                              A simple 'break' would do the job, no need for 'goto'... :^) Regards Thomas

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                              Super Lloyd
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                              break will only break the inner most loop! C# is not java where you could have labelled loop...

                              A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station.... _________________________________________________________ My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.

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                              • C CPallini

                                You may throw an exception for that. :)

                                If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
                                This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke
                                [My articles]

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                                Rob Grainger
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                                That's a worse offense than a goto IMHO - exceptions should be reserved for exceptional conditions (the clues in the name) not used as an alternative control flow mechanism.

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                                  A simple 'break' would do the job, no need for 'goto'... :^) Regards Thomas

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                                  Rob Grainger
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                                  Thomas Weller wrote:

                                  A simple 'break' would do the job, no need for 'goto'...

                                  Except that a break doesn't break out of two for loops, just the inner one - necessitating a flag to detect whether the outer loop should be exited too. In C# this seems a legitimate usage to me. I just wish C# had JavaScript's labelled loops/breaks, yielding the following code style:

                                  outer_loop:
                                  while (true) {
                                  // .. do something
                                  inner_loop:
                                  while (true) {
                                  // ...
                                  if (condition1)
                                  break inner_loop;

                                          if (condition2)
                                              break outer\_loop;
                                      }
                                  }
                                  

                                  Given that and fall-through in switch..case I see no need for goto.

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                                  • R Rob Grainger

                                    That's a worse offense than a goto IMHO - exceptions should be reserved for exceptional conditions (the clues in the name) not used as an alternative control flow mechanism.

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                                    CPallini
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                                    #18

                                    Rob Grainger wrote:

                                    not used as an alternative control flow mechanism.

                                    That's exactly what they are (IMHO). :-D

                                    If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
                                    This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke
                                    [My articles]

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                                      Thomas Weller wrote:

                                      A simple 'break' would do the job, no need for 'goto'...

                                      Except that a break doesn't break out of two for loops, just the inner one - necessitating a flag to detect whether the outer loop should be exited too. In C# this seems a legitimate usage to me. I just wish C# had JavaScript's labelled loops/breaks, yielding the following code style:

                                      outer_loop:
                                      while (true) {
                                      // .. do something
                                      inner_loop:
                                      while (true) {
                                      // ...
                                      if (condition1)
                                      break inner_loop;

                                              if (condition2)
                                                  break outer\_loop;
                                          }
                                      }
                                      

                                      Given that and fall-through in switch..case I see no need for goto.

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                                      CPallini
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                                      A 'labelled break' is a 'goto' alias. :)

                                      If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
                                      This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke
                                      [My articles]

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                                      • R Rob Grainger

                                        Thomas Weller wrote:

                                        A simple 'break' would do the job, no need for 'goto'...

                                        Except that a break doesn't break out of two for loops, just the inner one - necessitating a flag to detect whether the outer loop should be exited too. In C# this seems a legitimate usage to me. I just wish C# had JavaScript's labelled loops/breaks, yielding the following code style:

                                        outer_loop:
                                        while (true) {
                                        // .. do something
                                        inner_loop:
                                        while (true) {
                                        // ...
                                        if (condition1)
                                        break inner_loop;

                                                if (condition2)
                                                    break outer\_loop;
                                            }
                                        }
                                        

                                        Given that and fall-through in switch..case I see no need for goto.

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                                        Thomas Weller 0
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                                        What I mean is: a 'break' would be enough to execute the 'beep bop a loola' :-D ... By the way: I'd consider a 'flag' much better than a 'goto'... Regards Thomas

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                                        • S Super Lloyd

                                          break will only break the inner most loop! C# is not java where you could have labelled loop...

                                          A train station is where the train stops. A bus station is where the bus stops. On my desk, I have a work station.... _________________________________________________________ My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features.

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                                          Thomas Weller 0
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                                          I know. But in the pseudocode above it will definitely execute the 'beep bop a loola'... :-D Regards Thomas

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