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On 2011-07-07 19:48:06 +0100, Rod Pemberton said:

> "Nomen Nescio" <nobody@dizum.com> wrote in message
> news:df88fc8cfd40b995dfa513b2f4813f63@dizum.com...
>> "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@noavailemail.cmm> wrote:
>> 
>>> That's intellectual dishonesty.  I quoted K&R.  It says it's unecessary.
>> 
>> No, they show cases and explain where it's *better* to use goto.
>> 
> 
> Better?  I'm not sure how you come to that conclusion from what they said.
> I see numerous disclaimers saying it's unecessary, but here are some
> examples of it's use since it's part of the language.
> 
>> Nobody says
>> goto is necessary in C, but K&R *did* give an example where
>> it's better to use goto than not to use it.
>> 
> 
> 1) "... the goto statement is never necessary ..."
> 
> 2) " ... it is almost always easy to write code without it. "
> 
> 3) "Code involving a goto can always be written without one."
> 
> 4) "... it does seem that goto statements should be used rarely, if at all"
> 
> Don't all those state GOTOs are unecessary?  The first even uses "never
> necessary".  After they stated it four time in a row, I'm not sure what I
> could've misunderstood here.
> 
> 
> Rod Pemberton

Rod, their useing words ! Got to be careful about that ! :)

Chris