Usage of goto's

Henry Spencer henry at zoo.toronto.edu
Tue Oct 2 03:39:10 AEST 1990


In article <1990Sep30.190344.25031 at agate.berkeley.edu> raymond at math.berkeley.edu (Raymond Chen) writes:
>>	D. E. Knuth:  Structured Programming with Goto Statements
>>	ACM Computing Surveys, January 1974 (I think)
>                               ^^^^^^^
>                               December 1974.  Vol 6, No 4.

Do note, though, that a lot of Knuth's "just gotta have a goto" examples
go away when looked at through the right tools.  For example, his syntax-
scanning example clearly shows that he'd never heard of pushback. :-)
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