goto statement

[Steve Holden]

Philippe C. Martin wrote:
> I do not want to pollute the debate but:
> 
> -) I remember a software QA managanager responsible for "C" coding rules
> also not allowing us to use 'break', 'continue', or 'return' (in the middle
> of a function). 
> 
And I once worked (back in the 1970's) in a software shop where "because 
procedure calls are slow in PL/1" we had to write them so each procedure 
ended with a GOTO to a specific label variable. You would call these 
monstrosities in the following way:

     MyProcReturn = DoneIt;
     GOTO MyProc;
DoneIt:
     ...

Horrendous. I lasted about five months and then couldn't take the 
ignorance and idiocy any longer. They refused to believe that a 
recursive function could ever be useful in the real world (but then, if 
you only have a hammer ...)

regards
  Steve
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