- GOTOs

From: Douglas G. Danforth <"Douglas>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 22:34:12 -0400

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The main problem with GOTOs is when they are overlapping (instead of
nested).
-Doug

Bernhard Treutwein wrote:

>I agree that removing GOTOs needs some human brain, if the
>code should be more readable than before.
>
>Some of them can be replaced by RETURNs and encapsulating
>that part in a local procedure. Others can be replaced by
>LOOP
> EXIT
>END
>
>I am not shure, but some time ago I had the idea of a very
>clumsy semi-automatic solution with having a local variable
>label, which gets assigned a value at the goto and a CASE
>statement in a loop with the corresponding labels.
>
> LOOP
> CASE label OF
> END
> END
>
>regards
> Bernhard
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