Paul B. Webster VK2BZC wrote:
> When I was taught "C", one of the big plus-es (this was before C++ ;-)
> was the lack of a "goto" statement.  I suspect tutors/ lecturers still
> wax lyrical on this.

Um, C has a "goto".  Are you thinking of PASCAL?

main()
{
loop:
        thing();
        goto loop;
}

Admittedly you don't often _need_ to use a "goto".

main()
{
        while(1) thing();
}

But I think it is not as evil as setjmp() and longjmp().

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