And there are some who consider multiple points of exit from a function=20
almost as bad as a goto. After all, a return is nothing more than:

void foo(bar) {
     if(!bar) {
         goto RETURN_LABEL;
     } else {
         // do something with bar
     }
RETURN_LABEL:
}

On 4/13/2014 7:41 PM, Chris McSweeny wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 11:29 PM, smplx <smplx@allotrope.net> wrote:
>
>> Ok, here is a snipet of code that is much cleaner with the GOTO than
>> without (BTW it's the only goto in several thousand lines of code
>> belonging to the same project).
>>
> void function parse()
> {
>      p1 =3D parse_identifier();
>
>      if (p1 =3D=3D NULL)
>      {
>         p1 =3D parse_lparen();
>
>         if (p1 !=3D NULL)
>         {
>            ITEM   *p2;
>
>            p2 =3D parse_declarator();
>
>            if (p2 !=3D NULL)
>            {
>               ITEM   *p3;
>
>               p3 =3D parse_rparen();
>
>               if (p3 !=3D NULL)
>               {   p1 =3D p2;
>                  return;
>               }
>
>               push_item(p2);
>
>               p2 =3D NULL;
>            }
>
>            push_item(p1);
>
>            p1 =3D NULL;
>         }
>      }
>      return;
> }
>
> ;)
>
> Chris


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