gotos (actually: **Apology**)

[mcdonald at uxe.cso.uiuc.edu]

Why use goto's? Simple: because it makes sense in the context of the
problem at hand.

FLAME ON ... TEMPERATURE 100,000,000 degress !!!  1e28 tons of helium
ready to turn into Nickel56!!!!!!! (ask sci.astro)


I am FED UP with goto bashers! I'll admit that code filled with gotos
may be messy: if I write a goto, it's because I feel like it! I don't
give a DAMN whether you like goto's or not; I believe in using whatever 
tool is at hand to get the job done. I frankly don't believe for
ONE CLOCK TICK OF A CRAY 2 that gotos make code worse. Spaghetti is
spaghetti, whether it is done with gotos or some other construct, and
so is any other equivalent mess.


But keep up the battle; I'll agree it is worth a good chuckle.

Doug McDonald
Professor of Chemistry
University of Illinois