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Re: Thoughts on function

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On 09/19/11 04:26 PM, Miles Bader wrote:
> Geoff<geoff@invalid.invalid>  writes:
>> Refactor your function, get rid of the goto's. They are bad practice.
>
> But let's be fair -- while goto is often[*] used badly, and in such
> cases makes code harder to understand/maintain, it isn't somehow the
> kiss of death.  There are reasonable uses of goto.
>
> So although the presence of "goto" in code is a big warning sign
> (especially in C++, where RIAA tends to supplant "goto for error
> cleanup" idioms), is seems unreasonable to thus grade code a "1"
> without actually looking at the details of how its used.

Every coding standard I've written or had to follow has prohibited goto 
except in exceptional (and well commented) cases.

-- 
Ian Collins

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Thoughts on function Ebenezer <woodbrian77@gmail.com> - 2011-09-14 22:01 -0700
  Re: Thoughts on function Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-09-15 17:08 +1200
    Re: Thoughts on function Ebenezer <woodbrian77@gmail.com> - 2011-09-15 07:34 -0700
      Re: Thoughts on function Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-09-16 07:38 +1200
        Re: Thoughts on function Leigh Johnston <leigh@i42.co.uk> - 2011-09-15 20:40 +0100
        Re: Thoughts on function Ebenezer <woodbrian77@gmail.com> - 2011-09-15 17:23 -0700
          Re: Thoughts on function Ebenezer <woodbrian77@gmail.com> - 2011-09-18 13:30 -0700
            Re: Thoughts on function Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-09-19 09:34 +1200
              Re: Thoughts on function Ebenezer <woodbrian77@gmail.com> - 2011-09-18 18:25 -0700
                Re: Thoughts on function Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2011-09-18 19:08 -0700
                Re: Thoughts on function Ebenezer <woodbrian77@gmail.com> - 2011-09-18 19:46 -0700
                Re: Thoughts on function Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2011-09-18 20:12 -0700
                Re: Thoughts on function Ebenezer <woodbrian77@gmail.com> - 2011-09-18 21:28 -0700
                Re: Thoughts on function Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> - 2011-09-19 13:26 +0900
                Re: Thoughts on function Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-09-19 16:45 +1200
                Re: Thoughts on function Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> - 2011-09-19 15:19 +0900
                Re: Thoughts on function Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-09-19 16:43 +1200
                Re: Thoughts on function Ebenezer <woodbrian77@gmail.com> - 2011-09-19 11:16 -0700
                Re: Thoughts on function Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-09-20 07:44 +1200
                Re: Thoughts on function Ebenezer <woodbrian77@gmail.com> - 2011-09-19 18:03 -0700
                Re: Thoughts on function Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-09-20 13:15 +1200
                Re: Thoughts on function Ebenezer <woodbrian77@gmail.com> - 2011-09-19 18:27 -0700
  Re: Thoughts on function Fulvio Esposito <esposito.fulvio@gmail.com> - 2011-09-16 02:19 -0700
    Re: Thoughts on function Ebenezer <woodbrian77@gmail.com> - 2011-09-16 11:20 -0700
      Re: Thoughts on function Fulvio Esposito <esposito.fulvio@gmail.com> - 2011-09-16 13:51 -0700
  Re: Thoughts on function hanukas <jukka@liimatta.org> - 2011-09-19 06:19 -0700

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