gotos

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <451 at goofy.megatest.UUCP> djones at megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) writes:
>Mr Spencer, Mr. David Brown, and the loquacious Mr. Gwyn all say straight 
>out that I am an advocate of the use of the goto statement.

There you go, putting (wrong) words in other peoples' mouths.

>You three, Spencer, Brown, and Gwyn, hold that it is proper for you to 
>publicly criticize the software produced by the company which employs me, 
>on the basis of a few lines that I wrote here.

Ditto.  I merely maintained that it is appropriate for Henry to
think poorly of a company that publicly announces its liberal use
of GOTO with apparent pride.  If that's not what you intended to do,
then Henry and I must have misunderstood you.

I use GOTO myself, but only in a disciplined way and only when there
are sound technical reasons for so doing.  (Branching to a common
section of error-recovery code at the end of a function body is the
most usual situation.)  But I'm not going to wear a lapel pin that
proclaims "I USE GOTOS"!

My, how touchy people get when they think that money is involved.