Re: Structure vs purism ?

Philipp Rumpf (prumpf@jcsbs.lanobis.de)
Thu, 21 Jan 1999 14:45:21 +0000


On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 09:58:53PM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> Then 'tidy' up something so it looks good to 'humans' and do the same
> thing again. You will then learn why there are strange constructs and,
> as you say, a 1000 gotos.

I think a lot of the goto's could be removed as soon as there is a decent
possibility to tell the compiler to optimize for a certain case. This was
discussed on the egcs lists some time ago IIRC.

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