Re: Structure vs purism ?

Zygo Blaxell (uixjjji1@umail.furryterror.org)
21 Jan 1999 23:50:23 -0500

In article <788cc7$rft$1@palladium.transmeta.com>,
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@transmeta.com> wrote:
>One thing: "goto" is really the only sane way in C to implement a
>so-called posit/admit structure, which *is* recognized by structural
>programming -- you assume that it is going to be OK, but need to do
>cleanup if you bail. Sometimes an early return or "return do_cleanup();"
>is acceptable, but if the function needs to do cleanup using local
>variables, then there is no real choice.

Or you could use C++, and do it with exceptions and destructors.

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Zygo Blaxell                         (with a name like that, who needs a nick?)
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