[Gambas-user] usage of too much GOTO can be bad pracitce ?

[PICCORO McKAY Lenz]

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Lenz McKAY Gerardo (PICCORO)
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2017-06-25 8:43 GMT-04:00 Nigel Verity <nigelverity at ...67...>:

> I don't believe the use of GOTO is bad practice in terms of the efficiency
> and performance of the program, but its convenience often leads to lazy
> "spaghetti" code design which, in turn, usually leads to bugs.
>
>
> The use of RETURN is a much tidier way of breaking out of a SUB or
> FUNCTION, which has the effect of "GOTO END OF SUB/FUNCTION". It will then
> take you to the next line in the SUB/FUNCTION which made the call.
>
>
> It is always possible to write and position IF, SWITCH statements or loops
> in a way to avoid the need for a GOTO statement. The code following the
> corresponding label could, for example, be contained in a separate SUB or
> FUNCTION, which makes the code tidier and makes it easily reusable within
> the program.
>
>
> I certainly would not say that programmer who uses lots of GOTO statements
> is a bad programmer (as long as the program works correctly and
> efficiently) but I believe that few developers would choose to maintain
> code written by somebody else containing lots of GOTO statements.
>
>
> It's important to stress that this principle is not unique to Gambas.
> Nearly all programming languages support the concept of the "GOTO" (even
> C), and VB actively encourages it in its error handling, which is why
> Gambas is so superior.
>
>
> Nige
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