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"Gotos aren't damnable to begin with. If you aren't smart enough to distinguish what's bad about some gotos from all gotos, goto hell."

-- Erik Naggum, http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.lisp/msg/bb32931876...



A few years back, Linus and some kernel hackers had a good discussion about the good gotos vs. the bad gotos.

http://kerneltrap.org/node/553


Every function call is a goto.




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