Hugh Loebner wrote:
My previous message was attached to the wrong posting. I doubt very much whether there is any occasion where gotos are "most appropriate." Please provide an example. Check ot http://www.acm.org/classics/oct95/ "Go To Statement Considered Harmful" by Edsger W. Dijkstra
of course, this has been discredited in the following discussion http://kerneltrap.org/node/553/2131, for languages that do not have the equivalent of last/next type constructs for exiting loops in the middle of the loop (like C). it's a bit harder to find a justification while coding in perl. :)
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