Interesting. I rarely program in an environment without exceptions, so I haven't had reason to adopt that style. I recall that Linus has advocated the use of g

Interesting. I rarely program in an environment without exceptions, so I haven't had reason to adopt that style. I recall that Linus has advocated the use of goto in the Linux kernel for similar reasons. And the goto version of this code does seem more readable to me: http://kerneltrap.org/node/553/2131 http://kerneltrap.org/node/553/2131