On Wednesday, 10 August 2022 at 13:22:03 UTC, rikki cattermole
wrote:
On 11/08/2022 12:36 AM, pascal111 wrote:
2) I used "goto", I heard from someone before that using
"goto" isn't good programming feature.
This is mostly a historical debate at this point.
Back 40 years ago, goto wasn't typically limited within a
procedure and doesn't have any checks in place to prevent you
doing bad things.
These days languages will implement such checks (including D).
Some of the historical papers which debate this can be read
from the book Literate Programming by Donald Knuth. If you do
get the chance to read it, its a good read for cover to cover
and teaches you a lot of the historical context that you may
not get elsewhere.
https://www.amazon.com/Literate-Programming-Lecture-Notes-Donald/dp/0937073806
I remember the famous problem at old days called "spaghetti
code". But yes, D is modern and structured language and has good
checks to prevent "goto" problems, but it's, "goto" still as you
said a topic of historical debate.
