D vs C++

[Daniel Gibson]

Am 26.12.2010 01:36, schrieb spir:
> On Sat, 25 Dec 2010 14:03:42 -0800
> Walter Bright<newshound2 at digitalmars.com>  wrote:
>
>> bearophile wrote:
>>> Structured programming is good because it usually helps code readability. But
>>> it's not Verb, so in some less common cases a goto, break or continue help
>>> improve the code.
>>>
>>> Misra C Rules totally forbid break and continue, but more human coding
>>> guidelines just suggest to avoid them when possible, they are not evil.
>>
>>
>> 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.
>
> Sure, they're both equivalent to a goto.

I don't think so. They're much more clean and readable than goto (they 
just restart/jump behind the current loop or, if you use them with 
labels, an outer loop - IMHO that's quite different from jumping to 
arbitrary labels).
I guess this is the reason why break and continue are supported in Java 
but goto isn't.

> But what they mean makes sense, and it's clear. As you say, workarounds have always been ugly. For me, _that_ is important.

I agree.

>
> Denis

Cheers,
- Daniel