Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Rentsch Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Effective uses of c `goto' statement Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2020 08:28:24 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 10 Message-ID: <86sg8kkyjb.fsf@linuxsc.com> References: <87czzszjhs.fsf@fedora.osfans.org> <20201202120809.633@kylheku.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="ac77bead5788dbcd7c2e27c57004aab8"; logging-data="15992"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18wKY9dJK4yGzrNAmJ3Fbq5pa+ysgwiq1U=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:j7Vopn7zOq7b2yBwV7GzEjvfei8= sha1:BJcc46b66hCQRB8lfmc1hw8gAmc= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:156944 Kaz Kylheku <563-365-8930@kylheku.com> writes: [...] > Finite automata re easily implemented without goto, but only goto > offers the most efficient possible representation with the fewest > state variables (possibly with no state variable at all). Unless you can offer some sort of argument supporting this assertion, I'm inclined to believe it is not the case.