"while/else" (ugh) (was Re: [oclug] Ruby)

[Milan Chytil]

What is the point of struggling to write goto-less code
when the compiler puts them back in ?  Just look at the
assembly listing, it is full of jumps ( == goto ).  :-)

By the way, where can I get some docs for Ruby; I spent
whole afternoon on the web, always ending up at the
suggestion to buy the book at amazon.com.

Milan

On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, David F. Skoll wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Francis J. A. Pinteric wrote:
>
> > > > `goto' constructs are anathema!
>
> > > Not necessarily.  You'll find them all over the Linux kernel, for
> > > example.
>
> > So what?
>
> It means that to many programmers, "goto" is not anathema.  To you,
> maybe it is.
> .....

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