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What so bad about goto statements

 

What so bad about goto statements, Why is there so much legalism about it?
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20 Feb, 2009 - 09:30 PM
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I say if goto's make your program work, then why not use it? Why is goto's considered bad in the eyes of programmer's?

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Steffan   What so bad about goto statements   20 Feb, 2009 - 09:30 PM
Core   The GOTO statements mostly were used before the ac...   20 Feb, 2009 - 09:38 PM
BetaWar   My understanding of the goto is that it is just an...   20 Feb, 2009 - 10:01 PM
KYA   After a while even the original programmer could g...   21 Feb, 2009 - 07:59 PM
Tom9729   The idea that the goto statement somehow leads to ...   21 Feb, 2009 - 08:18 PM
Ipodhero178   My teacher taught me that you have to do so much w...   22 Feb, 2009 - 12:55 PM
NickDMax   The big problems with goto are readability and mai...   22 Feb, 2009 - 08:19 PM
BigAnt   Why use a high level language when everything ca...   23 Feb, 2009 - 07:37 AM
baavgai   I have yet to see a situation that requires a goto...   23 Feb, 2009 - 07:45 AM
Tom9729   Why use a high level language when everything can...   23 Feb, 2009 - 09:11 AM
PsychoCoder   Here's a decent write up on why a GOTO stateme...   23 Feb, 2009 - 09:22 AM
baavgai   [url=http://www.youngbloods.org/essays/argument_f...   11 Mar, 2009 - 08:47 AM
scalt   When I started programming I used to think I ...   3 Mar, 2009 - 01:12 PM
floatingpoint   My school teacher would cancel pages of a program ...   5 Mar, 2009 - 04:17 AM
Charlie IronGleet   When I started programming I used to think I ...   13 Mar, 2009 - 06:03 AM
Tom9729   And how the hell does one use it without line num...   13 Mar, 2009 - 07:44 AM
baavgai   I thought goto was eliminated from most contempor...   13 Mar, 2009 - 08:22 AM
Hyper   That why we have compilers in the first place. Wh...   13 Mar, 2009 - 05:52 PM
Hyper   It can be terrible if you use it alot, or use it i...   5 Mar, 2009 - 11:51 AM
mattsmee   Ever had a assembly language class??? Debugging as...   11 Mar, 2009 - 03:07 AM
LaFayette   http://david.tribble.com/text/goto.html#part-3 a ...   11 Mar, 2009 - 09:41 AM
fremgenc   To answer your question, GOTO's are absolutely...   12 Mar, 2009 - 04:38 PM
Hyper   goto's become unconditional jump statements in...   12 Mar, 2009 - 07:02 PM
KYA   Hmm...does continue; fall into the realm of GOTO a...   16 Mar, 2009 - 08:56 AM
baavgai   Hmm...does continue; fall into the realm of GOTO ...   16 Mar, 2009 - 09:45 AM
Hyper   Unconditional jump statements in C++: break, conti...   16 Mar, 2009 - 11:54 AM
SpeedisaVirus   I'm personally of the opinion that goto is rar...   17 Mar, 2009 - 12:30 PM
Loadmaster   I'm personally of the opinion that goto is ra...   2 Apr, 2009 - 01:00 PM
SpeedisaVirus   tru dat homie :)   4 Apr, 2009 - 08:05 PM
janotte   multiple exits (returns) from methods. Welcome...   7 Jun, 2009 - 05:57 AM
Jupiter 2   "I'm so old I was doing things before Man...   7 Jun, 2009 - 06:21 AM
Kanvus   The idea that the goto statement somehow leads to...   11 Jun, 2009 - 05:45 AM
Dantheman   The idea that the goto statement somehow leads to...   11 Jun, 2009 - 07:52 AM
xclite   I really haven't had a need for a GOTO stateme...   11 Jun, 2009 - 05:55 AM
Kanvus   Yes, it's true that it can be hard to read. Bu...   11 Jun, 2009 - 03:20 PM
Jupiter 2   I read the answer by Kanvus. Is he for or against ...   11 Jun, 2009 - 05:08 PM
Dantheman   Yes, it's true that it can be hard to read. B...   11 Jun, 2009 - 07:32 PM
Teumessian   They make the code much harder to read in large pr...   13 Jun, 2009 - 02:44 PM
paser   Every part of a language has a potential to be abu...   14 Jun, 2009 - 07:51 PM

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