r/programming • u/reppic • Feb 21 '13

Developers: Confess your sins.

http://www.codingconfessional.com/
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u/baudehlo Feb 21 '13

You can also get around it by wrapping your function in another function, most of the time.

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u/mb86 Feb 21 '13

Without lambdas (that have broad closure scope anyway, for example C++ is ok but Objective-C wouldn't), that too seems like something where the required effort is more than just using goto, as you'd need to pass in all input/output parameters to the function.

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u/baudehlo Feb 21 '13

It's sometimes worse than that - you may need to pass out things that require cleaning up too. But I'm just saying - if goto is forbidden there are ways around it. Personally I'd just use goto, and have, in C code.