D vs C++

Don nospam at nospam.com
Sat Dec 25 22:57:54 PST 2010


bearophile wrote:
> Walter Bright:
> 
>> I thought the idea that break and continue were bad died about 25 years ago. 
>> Pascal didn't allow them, and pretty much everyone hated the workaround of 
>> having to use flag variables.
> 
> You need to add some shades of grey to your palette. break, continue and goto are bad, 

Why are break and continue bad? I haven't heard anyone make that claim 
for a very long time.
BTW everyone I've known who thought they were evil, also wanted to ban 
multiple return statements in a single function. Most of them didn't 
like case statements, either.


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