gotos

[Karl Heuer]

In article <1988Apr16.223658.15649 at utzoo.uucp> henry at utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>>[re languages so rich in control structures that goto is superfluous]
>Don't forget the Unix shell.  (The standard one, not the silly thing from
>Berkeley.)

It isn't sufficiently rich, at least not for my taste.  Some things I've had
to write in shell are worse than a goto.  (Functions would help, but older
shells don't have them yet, so I avoid them when I need portability.)

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl at haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint