Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pegasus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!mtuxo!pegasus!mzal From: mzal@pegasus.UUCP (Mike Zaleski) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: I break for(;;) loops Message-ID: <2618@pegasus.UUCP> Date: Thu, 3-Oct-85 14:56:43 EDT Article-I.D.: pegasus.2618 Posted: Thu Oct 3 14:56:43 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 4-Oct-85 06:16:01 EDT Organization: AT&T Information Systems, Lincroft NJ Lines: 10 > Some of us feel the same about breaks as we do about gotos. I won't use > it, or continue either, and I won't let anyone in my shop use it. It is > just a goto with an implicit label, and destroys the ability to > determine program flow from the FORM of the source... I guess this means you don't use the switch statement either. Not that you can't live without it, but it can be useful at times. Without a break, a switch statement is kind of unwieldly. -- Mike^Z Zaleski@Rutgers [ allegra!, ihnp4! ] pegasus!mzal