The final word on GOTO (Don't I wis

[Peter da Silva]

The referenced article discusses replacing the Goto with a subroutine call.
The question is raised... why would that reduce clarity?

In a block-structured language it wouldn't. In C, however, there is the
problem of local variables.

Really:

	case whatever:
		special-code...;
		goto common;

Is a lot clearer than:

	case whatever:
		special-code...;
		common(a, whole, bunch, of, random, arguments);
		break;

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