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Did you mean
ep: return; to assuage those who believe a function should only return in one place?
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The ep label is after the return statement, in the OP (pseudo) code.
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That's why I asked. Jumping into the middle of a for loop makes no sense to me.
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Looks like a fruity loops kind of guy 
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It comes from an old, working C++ project, which, in turn comes from an older, working C project, which, in turn, comes from an ancient, ugly, not-working assembly project.
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The first and most important question - does it work?
The second question, how long ago was it written and what were the time-constraints and pressures of the project?
It's easy to stand there and criticize other peoples work. Pretty sure no matter what you produce code-wise there will be better ways to do it either now or in the future.
I never understand why people feel the need to post things like this - I'd guess some underlying insecurity issues...
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Apparently so, in C++. In C# (his target language) no - the label is out of scope of the goto.
It was apparently written in 2006 ... and in my opinion you shouldn't try to perpetuate code crimes into new languages.
To be honest, any coder who thinks nesting loops 5+ deep is a good idea probably needs a lesson in exponential growth ... 
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Ooh, I thought C++ initialised variables to 0 by default - apparently not. So this is undefined behaviour if any of the loop variables are used after the goto is executed. Fnu
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Certainly not. What would the loop variables be set to when you jumped into the middle of the loop? 
You can sort-of mimic something similar with an async method, by putting a yield return; in the inner loop. But IIRC, the compiler has to rewrite that as a state machine, because jumping into the middle of a loop just doesn't make any sense.
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I review my own code - so I suppose, if I wrote it, it would pass.
But I didn't - looks more like something one of our overseas contractors would do.
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It's this new cool style of programming named For-Oriented Programming, or FOP for short.
I think I'll try it out on my next project 
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Sander Rossel wrote: For-Oriented Programming, or FOP
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raddevus wrote: Sander Rossel wrote: For-Oriented Programming, or FOP
Or For Loop Oriented Programming - guaranteed to be a complete FLOP
(Yes, I know FLOPS is already an acronym in computing for Floating Point Operations Per Second).
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Would be a good candidate for The Weird And The Wonderful forum, rather than the Lounge.
I'm surprised it compiled. Shouldn't 'ep;' be 'ep:;'? I don't know since it is 43 years since I last wrote a goto statement (excluding for old languages that needed 'ON ERROR GOTO ..', and that was as recent as the late 1990s).
modified 8-Oct-20 7:39am.
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Quote: I'm surprised it compiled.
I strongly doubt it compiles.
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First thoughts: It does not look very performant with 4 nested for loops, but it might be necessary, so need more information before commenting any more.
Blink twice thoughts: Nuke that goto. Nuke it from space...
This should not compile in C#.
Wouldn't that have undefined behaviour in C, as the loop variables would not get initialised?
It looks like the code that the goto label refers to is only executed from the goto, so perhaps the goto could be replaced by moving that code into the if statement.
Good luck untangling this code.
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Well, it shows a good deal of promise. The author has very rigorously and helpfully identified (via comments) both the end of the method, and the end of the last for loop. Clearly s/he was in a great hurry, or maybe just wilfully lazy, as there is no equivalent commenting on the end of the inner loops. A smack on the wrist needed there, I think.
Succinct and meaningful variable names used. in suggests a background in early BASIC, but that's fine; at least we know which level each variable relates to. There's a flag helpfully named flag, and a condition sensibly named pass. Well thought through. My criticism would be that ep is obviously the "end procedure" goto target, but to perpetuate the camel case standard used in the method name, it should be eP.
Indentation is good and consistent. Not sure on the inline if but that may conform to local standards.
Otherwise? meh. 
modified 8-Oct-20 8:29am.
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Without context on what it's doing and trying to solve it's a bit difficult to say, but it looks klunky and if I had to review it I'd probably fail it.
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Without context, it's hard to say what's going on but a thought occurs to me here; if there is no condition before that return statement, each loop level is going to execute only once so the whole logic could be flattened.
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who gave you permission to post my code on here? I thought the red printing at the top forbid that.
edit: oops, sorry meant to reply to that other fellow.
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OriginalGriff wrote: code review where you are
On my current team, I'm the only one who writes "real code" -- and I definitely would not have written that.
We've been required to do code reviews though... so we pretend to do code reviews of our SSIS packages. 
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Maybe a self code review or the code review was sent to a subordinate/junior guy or a force approval. 
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Isn't that the guy in QA that asked where to stick the goto?
But I'm sure that's not where they told him to stick it.
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Yes - I'm trying to get him to see that I'm not the only one who looks at theat and sees Assembler code written in C compiled by a C++ compiler and never going to work in C# ...
He thinks it's perfectly good code because it has worked since 2006. We all know that just because you can do something, it doesn't mean you should. I feel sorry for anyone who has to work for / with him - that company has to be the kiss of death for your career!
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