goto considered helpful (Was: question about linker)

From	Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	goto considered helpful (Was: question about linker)
Date	2024-12-12 14:44 +0200
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On Wed, 11 Dec 2024 17:27:53 -0800
Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> wrote:

> bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
> [...]
> > My experience of multi-level break is that there are two main
> > use-cases:
> >
> >  * Used in the current loop only (not necessarily the innermost to
> > an observer). This is the most common
> >
> >  * Used to exit the outermost loop
> >
> > So to support these, named or even numbered loops are not
> > necessary. (Eg. I use 'exit' or 'exit all'.)  
> 
> I would oppose a change to C that only applied to innermost and
> outermost loops.  For one thing, I'm not aware of any other language
> that does this (except perhaps your unnamed one).  For another,
> it's easy enough to define a feature that handles any arbitrary
> nesting levels, by applying names (labels) to loops.
>

The better solution is education.
Convince teachers in unis and colleges that goto is *not* considered
harmful for this particular use case. Convince them to teach that 
attempts to avoid goto [for this particular use case] are really
considered harmful. If you don't believe in authority of yourself then
ask for help from somebody famous that share this view. I would guess
that nearly all famous C programmers share it.

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Re: question about linker bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2024-12-11 02:21 +0000
  Re: question about linker antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) - 2024-12-11 14:39 +0000
    Re: question about linker bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2024-12-11 15:34 +0000
      Re: question about linker Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-12-11 14:06 -0800
        Re: question about linker bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2024-12-12 00:02 +0000
          Re: question about linker Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-12-11 16:42 -0800
            Re: question about linker bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2024-12-12 01:14 +0000
              Re: question about linker Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-12-11 17:27 -0800
                Re: question about linker bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2024-12-12 11:48 +0000
                Re: question about linker Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-12-12 12:50 -0800
                goto considered helpful (Was: question about linker) Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-12-12 14:44 +0200
                Re: goto considered helpful Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-12-12 13:50 -0800
                Re: goto considered helpful Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2024-12-12 22:33 +0000
                Re: goto considered helpful David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-12-13 09:50 +0100
                Re: goto considered helpful bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2024-12-13 11:12 +0000
                Re: goto considered helpful Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-12-13 14:39 +0200
                Re: goto considered helpful David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-12-13 14:31 +0100
                Re: goto considered helpful David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-12-13 14:19 +0100
                Re: goto considered helpful bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2024-12-13 14:26 +0000
                Re: goto considered helpful David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-12-13 17:52 +0100
                Re: goto considered helpful Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-12-13 10:11 -0800
                Re: goto considered helpful scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-12-13 14:16 +0000
                Re: goto considered helpful Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2024-12-13 14:50 +0100
                Re: goto considered helpful (Was: question about linker) Rosario19 <Ros@invalid.invalid> - 2024-12-20 13:52 +0100
                Re: goto considered helpful (Was: question about linker) Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-12-20 15:27 +0200
                Re: goto considered helpful (Was: question about linker) Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-12-24 09:05 -0800
                Re: goto considered helpful (Was: question about linker) Rosario19 <Ros@invalid.invalid> - 2024-12-26 13:33 +0100
                Re: goto considered helpful (Was: question about linker) Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-12-28 09:29 -0800
      Re: question about linker Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2024-12-12 06:54 -0800
  Re: question about linker Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2024-12-11 17:24 +0100
    Re: question about linker bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2024-12-12 12:11 +0000
      Re: question about linker Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2024-12-12 15:56 +0100

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