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

[Michael P. Soulier]

On 28/06/03 Matthew Wilcox did speaketh:

> Basically, only use them for exception handling.  If C had decent
> exception handling (eg try { ... } finally { ... }), most of the gotos
> could be avoided.

    I thought most C programmers used setjmp/longjmp for exception
handling. 

    Mike

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