The funny thing is, it became a cargo cult in many ways. I once worked with a guy who persistently wrote things like these in C++:
do {
...
if (...) break;
...
} while (false);
It took me a while to realize what this was about. But, basically, he invented a way to goto (so long as it was forward) without actually spelling it out. When I asked him, he gave the usual creed about how "goto is bad", and wouldn't be convinced that break
is goto, especially given how he used it.
Needless to say, this kind of code is actually less readable than if it were written with a goto in it, because it looks like a loop, but actually isn't one. With goto, at least it's very clear what it's for, even when there was a better way to do the same thing.
Needless to say, this kind of code is actually less readable than if it were written with a goto in it, because it looks like a loop, but actually isn't one. With goto, at least it's very clear what it's for, even when there was a better way to do the same thing.