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Sounds a bit like a strawman then, does anybody actually maligns "goto" as an error handling construct in C? It's pretty standard in my experience. It's goto "l
by simias 9y ago
Sounds a bit like a strawman then, does anybody actually maligns "goto" as an error handling construct in C? It's pretty standard in my experience. It's goto "like in BASIC" that's utterly evil and rightfully maligned. And having learned C coming from BASIC I speak from experience...
- MikkoFinell 9y agoYes actually. Our teacher in university described it as "Something really bad".
- simias 9y agoIn the context of C or C++? I've read similar warnings in C++ tutorials in the past and I tend to agree with them, in C it's just silly however.
- MikkoFinell 9y agoIn the context of a C systems programming class.
- Lurker397412 9y agoI would not put the opinion of an academic over a practitioner in any field, except one purely theoretical -- and CS is most certainly theoretical