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"And yeah, I remember that fill code. I always felt guilty because it contained a goto statement. I don't think I've written a "goto" since." Loved this! Glad

• barrkel 13y ago
  Gotos aren't that infrequent in C and C++ written without exceptions or longjmps, and stack-based cleanup needs to occur. Last time I wrote a goto in a language that did have exceptions was the alignment portion of an unrolled loop implementation of a hash algorithm. Delphi doesn't support C-style switch statements where one case flows into the next; so the alignment switch did jumps into the unrolled loop body.
  • mratzloff 13y ago
    Yep. Gotos can be the cleanest way of handling certain errors in C.
• kroger 13y ago
  "By the way, if you don’t like goto statements, don’t read this. (And don’t read any other programs that simulate multistate systems.)" Knuth, on the Adventure game [1] Knuth's "Structured programming with go to statements" [2] is always a good read. [1] http://www.literateprogramming.com/adventure.pdf http://www.literateprogramming.com/adventure.pdf [2] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.103.6084 http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.103.... EDIT: formatting