goto statement

[Grant Edwards]

On 2005-04-21, Sergei Organov <osv at javad.ru> wrote:
> Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> writes:
>
>> On 2005-04-21, Sergei Organov <osv at javad.ru> wrote:
>> 
>> > Well, I'm writing for embedded realtime systems in C/C++ and
>> > have never encountered a single need to use goto.
>> 
>> I have encountered situations in C programs where the best
>> thing to use was a goto.  Those situations have always been
>> handled beutifully by a "raise" in Python.
>
> setjmp/longjump?

I've always found setjmp/longjmp much more confusing and hard
to maintain than a simple goto.  It also requires library
support that goto doesn't.

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