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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Coding style ( was Re: why is this not a bug in namei?)
To: inkari@snakemail.hut.fi (Juha Inkari)
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> One reason to be carefull with goto statements is C++ compability.
> In C++ it is illegal to jump over variable initialization.

Jumping into an inferior scope is bad practice, period, and will not
work on many older K&R compilers, either.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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