Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> Right. Structured programming is where each statement has an entrance 
>> and an exit. That's what (IIRC) Dijkstra was talking about.
> 
>   Dijkstra advocated structured programming as a replacement for the
> heavily "goto-based" programming of the time. Structured programming
> introduced concepts which are common in most current languages. The
> more the reason to not to use goto...

Exactly. And the structured programming he introduced also eschewed 
early returns, break, continue, etc. That's all I'm trying to say. :-) 
If your language has *no* unstructured control-flow statements (such as 
early returns, break, continue, etc) then you probably wind up using 
goto about as much as you wind up using globals.

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