Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Re: Breaking out of several nested loops (& ANSI C) Message-ID: <4449@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Sat, 13-Oct-84 18:49:21 EDT Article-I.D.: utzoo.4449 Posted: Sat Oct 13 18:49:21 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Oct-84 18:49:21 EDT References: <129@ssc-vax.UUCP>, <1801@pegasus.UUCP> <4886@duke.UUCP>, <2085@rochester.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 11 > ... if those are really the only goto's we really want, why bother > implementing the whole power of an all purpose 'goto'? ... Because the all-purpose goto, revolting though it is, already exists in C and does not need re-inventing. Personally, I think "return" makes a dandy multi-level exit; I haven't used, or missed, goto for years. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry