[Bf-committers] goto statements

[Knapp]

On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Martin Poirier <theeth at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It depends on the usage. For error handling, it's usually tolerated (as the C replacement for Finally).
>
> Not sure if that applies to how it's used in the point cache code though.
>
> Martin
>
> --- On Sun, 1/2/11, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:
>
>> From: Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org>
>> Subject: [Bf-committers] goto statements
>> To: "bf-blender developers" <bf-committers at blender.org>
>> Received: Sunday, January 2, 2011, 8:56 AM
>> Hi,
>>
>> The new pointcache is stuffed with gotos... I really
>> thought these
>> were considered dangerous and should be avoided at any
>> cost.
>>
>> -Ton-
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org
>>   www.blender.org
>> Blender Institute   Entrepotdok 57A
>> 1018AD Amsterdam   The Netherlands

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goto

'Some programmers, such as Linux Kernel designer and coder Linus
Torvalds or software engineer and book author Steve McConnell also
object to Dijkstra's point of view, stating that GOTOs can be a useful
language feature, improving program speed, size and code clearness,
but only when used in a sensible way by a comparably sensible
programmer.'


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