Impressed

[Tobias Pankrath]

On Saturday, 28 July 2012 at 16:55:32 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> On Friday, 27 July 2012 at 00:57:15 UTC, bearophile wrote:
>> Stuart:
>>
>>> Why does D have GOTO? I haven't used GOTO in over a decade, 
>>> because it's truly evil.
>>
>> Gotos are not so evil. Just use them when they are useful and 
>> they can't be replaced by structured programming. In D I 
>> create finite state machines at compile-time that use gotos, 
>> they are quick.
>
> Do FSMs really need to be spaghetti monsters? I heard, gcc 
> optimizer can tear functions into common pieces and them 
> reassemble the functions back from these pieces, or simply 
> inline them, won't you get the same result?

State machines encoded with goto tend not to be more spaghetti 
than their
specifications (say in regex or graph picture