Re: goto and macro usage

[Noel Yap]

Paul D. Smith wrote:

> Personally, I don't agree with the attitude that gotos are always evil
> and should never be used (certainly in C).  I find that, used in
> specific ways, they make code much clearer by avoiding the useless noise
> of deeply nested conditionals.

I completely agree with this sentiment.  Quality is gauged in how the tool is 
used, not in whether the tool is used.

> As for the hash stuff, those files (hash.c and hash.h) are taken
> basically verbatim from the id-utils GNU package, as a fast, portable
> hashing library.  I suspect they are implemented as they are for speed,
> and although I'm not sure I would have used a similar implementation
> method myself, I'm not really interested in making local changes to
> files pulled in from other packages, unless there are actual bugs that
> need to be fixed.

Hmmm, is there a reason why the library, if it even exists, wasn't linked in 
rather than copying its code?

Thanks,
Noel