Since goto is getting so popular these days....

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rastaVnuce wrote:

elegantly solvable by using goto

"elegant" and "goto" should not be in the same sentence. ;) Marc

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rastaVnuce wrote:

Will I goto hell if I use it?

You’ve got ticket to hell for just mentioning it. :-D

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El Corazon

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You have been warned[^].

what if I write a self-modifying application... I bet there is no xkcd punishment for that! :~:~:~

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Marcus_Idle

I get that this is a joke question, but seriously, why so much debate about it? It messes with flow in a pretty unreadable way, and the whole point of modern (post 1950) computer languages is that you write for your colleagues (or your future self) so why do it? But we've all seen a lot worse[^], so goto isn't the devil incarnate... end of story(?)

kevinnicol

Unless the sentence is "how to elegeantly fire that coder who keeps using goto's in his code."

Tomz_KV

"GOTO" is a good statement in sql that cannot be easily replaced.

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Christian Graus

I've NEVER held a religious view about goto. I do agree that overuse can make code unreadable. I've never used goto in my code, in 12 or so years of programming, because it's never been the best solution.

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Tom Delany

I've heard some claim that it is valid if you're writing a state machine. Personally, I avoid goto like the plague!

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Mark_Wallace

Is the goto becoming popular? How silly. It's just a tool, just like any other keyword used for a predefined function. Mind you, I'm still pissed off that the C+ chaps refused my demand to have the return statement keyword changed to "otog" -- symmetry is so important in programming; it makes everything more understandable.

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Mike Marynowski

If you look at the state machine class that is automatically generated for a method that uses the C# yield return keyword, you will find goto statements. I think it would be brutally messy to implement otherwise.

BillWoodruff

One-time-only, or occasional, use of 'goto will simply intensify the awareness of the Hell you are already in, but if used recursively, 'goto renders you fully aware of said Hell, and thus unable to reboot your consciousness. best, Bill

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Rob Grainger

Busog shurely

Mark_Wallace

Please don't call me Shurely.

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rastaVnuce

Why the bunch of univotes? Geeezzz... Guys.. joke, you know... the thing you do / say to have a laugh? I know some don't understand that concept, hence the Joke icon... :doh: Aaah... goto hell!

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Gary Wheeler

Christian Graus wrote:

I've never used goto in my code, in 12 or so years of programming

The last time I used goto was back in the early 90's, and then it was because exception handling wasn't implemented by the tool chain I had at the time.

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Fabio Franco

Never used GOTO writing MS-DOS batch files? Ok, I was 15 years old, but still, by then it was reasonable.

pboucher

lol, completely agree with you on this one.

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