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GeneralRe: while(true) is not fun Pin
Greg Utas20-Sep-20 6:30
professionalGreg Utas20-Sep-20 6:30 
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honey the codewitch20-Sep-20 6:35
mvahoney the codewitch20-Sep-20 6:35 
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F-ES Sitecore20-Sep-20 7:09
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Nelek20-Sep-20 7:41
protectorNelek20-Sep-20 7:41 
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David O'Neil20-Sep-20 7:28
professionalDavid O'Neil20-Sep-20 7:28 
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Nelek20-Sep-20 7:43
protectorNelek20-Sep-20 7:43 
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BillWoodruff20-Sep-20 10:20
professionalBillWoodruff20-Sep-20 10:20 
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honey the codewitch20-Sep-20 11:09
mvahoney the codewitch20-Sep-20 11:09 
state machines are a good argument for gotos. It is impossible as far as I know, to implement every scenario possible for a deterministic finite automata based state machine without using either array based tables, or goto statements. while/for/etc don't cut it because the flow can become too complicated for those constructs. There was a Knuth paper you linked to earlier** that presented a defense of goto that is similar to my defense of it just above.

** here's the code from that paper (Example 1):
for i := 1 step 1 until m do.
if A[i] = x then go to found fi;
not found: i := re+l; m := i;
A[i] := x; B[i] := 0;
found: B[i] := B[i]+I; 

rewritten without goto it's even worse (Example 1a):
i:=1;
while i < m and A[i] # x do i :-- i+1;
if i > m then ra := i; A[i] := x; B[i] ::= 0 fi;
B[i] := B[i]+I; 

Real programmers use butterflies

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BillWoodruff20-Sep-20 11:41
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Grant Rostig21-Sep-20 19:04
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Wizard of Sleeves20-Sep-20 20:23
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