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11 Aug 2024 01:23:52 EDT (-0400)
  Re: The Language of POV-Ray  
From: Mark Wagner
Date: 11 Mar 2000 01:33:32
Message: <38c9e8bc@news.povray.org>
Chris Huff wrote in message ...
>In article <38C992EA.4C6238BD@ij.net>, Matt Giwer <jul### [at] ijnet>
>wrote:
>> Next, complex conditional if then else statements. Can GOTO be
>> far behind?
>
>Umm, we have if-then-else statements. And switch statements. And goto is
>a bad idea for many reasons.


In "The Art of Computer  Programming", Knuth uses a GOTO in one of the
algorithms, simplifying things greatly.

Mark


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