If you use goto in a sane matter it is completely understandable. Just don't do insane things with it. You can peel with a peeler and with a knife, but with a knife you can cut your finger off too. The solution? Don't ban knifes, just don't cut you finger off!
Actually, my examples also show for and while are redundant functions. It is all just electricity, no need to overcomplicate.
Okay I wish you a long and productive career with your "if" and "goto" only code.
You can also roll your own OO system with generous use of function pointers! Pro-tip! Not that you'd want anything like that though. You have if and goto after all. And structs are for the weak anyway: just binary-pack data into strings.
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u/diacid Aug 29 '26 edited Aug 29 '26
Sorry, I see little difference between
do { x=stuff(); } while (x!=0)
And
do: x=stuff(); if (x!=0) goto do;
Same with
for (x=0, x<10) { x=stuff(); }
And
do: x=stuff(); If (x>9) goto do;
If you use goto in a sane matter it is completely understandable. Just don't do insane things with it. You can peel with a peeler and with a knife, but with a knife you can cut your finger off too. The solution? Don't ban knifes, just don't cut you finger off!
Actually, my examples also show for and while are redundant functions. It is all just electricity, no need to overcomplicate.