Thread: John Carmack used goto

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    John Carmack used goto

    Now everyone will defend goto, saying 'oh well I guess sometimes it's okay to use goto, I mean it's a very useful at certain times'.

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    I don't care if someone else used goto (I mean it was created for some reason...). But I do like the setup of VC++ in that picture. How do you edit syntax highlighting like that?

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    visual assist

    www.wholetomato.com

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    Already from munkey's post, goto is being more tolerated.

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    I'm sure he had his reasons to do it, And it would probably be the
    most wise thing to do in this situation.

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    Besides the goto label is within the same function, No harm done.

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    I knew it I knew it I knew it, had it been any other person it would be a bad thing.

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    Originally posted by Silvercord
    I knew it I knew it I knew it, had it been any other person it would be a bad thing.
    What did you expect for the Programming King of Graphics.

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    I still see goto as a viable usage, as long as it is used properly and with good thought process. In this case i feel it is, and in any respect, i don't care what he uses he owns everyone here :P

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    By the way silver dod you put that comment after it?
    Would be funny if John wrote it himself

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    no, i put that in myself, but i've seen some extremely strange things in his code:

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    Although its not prefered practice, there's nothing technically wrong with using a goto in code like that....his code is built for speed and in the situation, an unconditional jump outside a nested loop is probably prefereable to using a variable (in memory) to set the condition whether to break out of the loop or not.....

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    ScreenShot

    Do you have some type of screen shot program?
    Stan The Man. Beatles fan

    When I was a child,
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    When I became a man,
    I put childish ways behind me"
    (the holy bible, Paul, in his first letter to the Cor. 13:11)

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    Re: ScreenShot

    Originally posted by Stan100
    Do you have some type of screen shot program?
    Look for a button on the keyboard called 'print screen', Ram it,
    Open up paint and choose paste.

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    Are there any free programs that do what Visual Assist does? I don't care if it is lacking things Visual Assist has though.

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    Originally posted by Munkey01
    Are there any free programs that do what Visual Assist does? I don't care if it is lacking things Visual Assist has though.
    What's the problem with all the screenshot programs?
    Just use print screen!

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