Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 21:01:14 -0500 From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Coding style ( was Re: why is this not a bug in namei?) Message-ID: <199509200201.VAA14233@bonkers.taronga.com> In-Reply-To: <199509191852.LAA10314@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <199509190433.WAA24091@rocky.sri.MT.net>
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While I'm no fan of excessive gotos, or excessive goto avoidance... In article <199509191852.LAA10314@phaeton.artisoft.com>, Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote: >> > According to a Bell Labs study, human beings are capable of keeping 5 to >> > 9 items in short term memory simultaneously. That would be why phone >> > numbers are 7 digits. >> > I'm not even taxing the low end of the study participants. >> What this has to do with you using goto's I have no idea. >It shows that David's complaint about 3 goto's is religious, and not as >he said a result of battling obfuscation. Um, those three gotos aren't "three things you have to remember", but rather "three *more* things you have to remember". If you're already dealing with four arguments, a function name, and a macro you just blew it.
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