[TUHS] I can't drive 55: "GOTO considered harmful" 55th anniversary
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Fri Mar 10 16:15:38 AEST 2023
On Thu, 9 Mar 2023, Warner Losh wrote:
> In C I use it all the time to do goto err for common error recovery
> because C doesn't have anything better.
<AOL>
Me too :-)
</AOL>
Seriously, I also use setjmp()/longjmp() for a more elegant exit from a
deeply-nested loop; "break N" to break out of "N" loops, anyone? I
haven't found that yet...
Of course, in those days it was setexit() etc :-)
-- Dave
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