Thread: Need help with goto in c++

Originally Posted by quzah

I find it often helpful to make my entire program just one huge main function, with all my variables global, and then just use goto jumps to get where I need. The benifit of this and the globals, is that on the off chance main gets too big, I can always just make one more big function, and all the variables are accessable to it. This lends greatly to the overall readability of the program.

Quzah.

Good advice, as always, quzah. The glue that's required to couple together functions and modules just makes your program bigger as well. If you use as few functions and classes as possible, you can spend less time and space on putting things together and more on the meat of the program. That's where real productivity comes from.

These last two post hurt my brain, really.

Originally Posted by Meloshski

That kinda kills the point of OOP and lower memory usage for variables not often used?

~Meloshski

Hell no, it's definately in the spirit of OOP!

main has a bunch of stuff in it.
main is a huge function.

After all, OOP is all about "has a" / "is a" relationships!



Quzah.

I bout died when I read Quzah's post. And he didn't even say if he was joking or not. Later I find out that my suspicions were accurate....her was joking. Thank goodness.

You guys kill me.


And to the poster I have some really good advice on goto. Avoid it like the plague and pretend that it doesn't exist.

Anything that can be done with goto can be accomplished with much more finesse using other C/C++ constructs and logic.


Goto. Danger Will Robinson,....Danger!!!