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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: Coding style ( was Re: why is this not a bug in namei?)
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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.