[Edu-sig] Algebra 2

[Ivan Krstić]

On Oct 3, 2008, at 9:22 PM, michel paul wrote:
> ever since those days GOTO has been considered bad style.  It  
> produces crazy and cumbersome code.

(This generalization is patently incorrect. *Bad* use of GOTO tends to  
create more spectacular problems in code organization than bad use of  
a number of other language features, which is why GOTO has earned its  
reputation. When used correctly, goto is almost a necessity for clean,  
understandable code in the face of certain flow complexities such as  
nested loops or multiple "fail, shared cleanup, return" situations  
within the same function.)

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