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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Path: sparky!uunet!mole-end!mat
- From: mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us
- Subject: Re: GOTO, was: Tiny proposal for na
- Message-ID: <1992Aug30.083514.4066@mole-end.matawan.nj.us>
- Summary: Empress of India
- Organization: :
- References: <714668024@thor> <6800007@tisdec.tis.tandy.com> <rmartin.714931485@thor>
- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 08:35:14 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- In article <rmartin.714931485@thor>, rmartin@thor.Rational.COM (Bob Martin) writes:
- > hosken@spss.com (Bill Hosken) writes:
-
- > >Clear thinking helps to write good code, gotos whether or not.
-
- > This is sort of like saying: "I am an expert driver, my clarity of
- > driving skills entitles me to ignore certain stop signs, when I know
- > (by virtue of my great skill) that there is no cross traffic.
- > ...
- > In software engineering, we have rules, but no cops. (And I don't
- > want any cops either). So "real good programmers" sometimes feel that
- > the rules don't apply to them. We average types suffer at their hands.
-
- Bob, I haven't used a goto in at least eight years, except perhaps in
- a toy program to prove that the compiler takes it. I believe that once
- in that time have toyed with the idea of using one in real code, but
- found a good way without it.
-
- Goto's may be like titles such as `Empress of India.' There may
- somewhere be a monarch who still is styled by that title, but nobody rules
- India as an empire. But I'll be fight for my goto, if need be, with my
- fingernails against the omnidijkstratite juggernaut, and if someone wants
- to call himself Emperor of the North Pole, he's got my permission.
-
- Goto's are like the write-in vote. I don't expect ever to want to vote
- for Elmer Plumpudding, but I want that slot on the voting machine. (I
- realize that the courts in Hawaii have ruled otherwise, but since when
- are the courts a democratic institution?)
- --
- (This man's opinions are his own.)
- From mole-end Mark Terribile
-
- mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us, Somewhere in Matawan, NJ
-