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carlovski99 t1_iyc60gq wrote

Reply to comment by Megalocerus in ELI5: why is using "goto" considered to be a bad practice in programming? by Dacadey

Or even worse, comefrom https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMEFROM

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Megalocerus t1_iydadd3 wrote

Yes, that's far worse, but I never encountered that in real code. The rules for using alter were:

  1. Don't use it.

  2. If you use it, have any GOTO referenced by it leave off the destination in code. Thus, it was just GOTO. by itself on the line with a period, to clue the programmer it was a trap.

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