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- From: kers@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Chris Dollin)
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 07:28:28 GMT
- Subject: Re: Re: GOTO, was: Tiny proposal for named loops.
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- In-Reply-To: matt@physics16.berkeley.edu's message of 26 Aug 92 12:24:22
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- In article ... matt@physics16.berkeley.edu (Matt Austern) writes:
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- The classic situation where gotos are generally believed to be useful
- is writing a finite-state machine.
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- Use mutually recursive procedures, and lean on your language designers and
- compiler-writers until they're as efficient as the goto's would have been.
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- Regards, | "If taking devious pains was a sign of laziness, he was quite
- Kers. | prepared to call Hazelton the laziest man alive." Blish (m-o-l)
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