Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!yetti!geac!daveb From: daveb@geac.UUCP (Dave Brown) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: goto's in C: an opinion... Message-ID: <937@geac.UUCP> Date: Fri, 17-Jul-87 23:53:47 EDT Article-I.D.: geac.937 Posted: Fri Jul 17 23:53:47 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jul-87 19:55:14 EDT References: <3289@bigburd.PRC.Unisys.COM> Reply-To: daveb@geac.UUCP (Dave Brown) Organization: The little blue rock next to that twinkly star Lines: 11 Summary: Necessary, due to misfeatures. It is as much a design problem as a style issue: the same keyword is used to exit a switch as a loop, therefore making it impossible to exit a loop from said switch.... Unless you really distort things and use continue to mean "don't break". B had the same problem, not unexpectedly. -- David (Collier-) Brown. | Computer Science Geac Computers International Inc., | loses its memory 350 Steelcase Road,Markham, Ontario, | (if not its mind) CANADA, L3R 1B3 (416) 475-0525 x3279 | every 6 months.