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to: Antti Kurenniemi
from: Mike `/m`
date: 2006-01-29 08:46:58
subject: Re: History of BASIC and c

From: Mike '/m' 

>Because it's almost impossible to trace back.

For that you need to use the COMEFROM statement.

 /m


On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 14:45:19 +0200, "Antti Kurenniemi"
 wrote:

>"Geo"  wrote in message
news:43dc4e32$2{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> established. I never considered GOTO an abomination, though - it was
>>
>> I've never understood why anyone would have a problem with GOTO.
>
>Because it's almost impossible to trace back. If you have a place in your
>code where you can get from multiple GOTO's, you'll never know where you
>came from unless you write some funky trace-logic yourself.
>
>Mind you, it can be used properly as well, but that seems to happen quite
>rarely.
>
>
>Antti Kurenniemi
>

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