The best coding advice that was ever given to me

[Walter Bright]

On 12/29/2020 7:06 PM, Mathias LANG wrote:
> And regarding the `goto` => nested function transformation, contributors have 
> been doing this for a few years with great results. E.g. in `typeMerge`: 
> https://github.com/dlang/dmd/commit/5b3a28416610535a4d415e0f27323ed64ea3349f
> [...]
> In DMD's defense, the adage used to be "only have one exit point per function".

Recall also that DMD was written in C-with-classes, which does not have nested 
functions, so goto was the best alternative.