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Subject: Re: I don't trust programmers who knock #define | goto.
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On 10/01/2021 10:46 AM, Jeff-Relf.Me@. wrote:
> I don't trust programmers who knock #define | goto.
>

Each has it's uses. I'm amused when the evil goto is covered with 
syntactic sugar like try {} catch{} or convoluted blocks of code. Being 
an old assembler guy I know there's a JMP luring in the bushes.

I think the purists were scarred in their youth by computed goto.