Re: too many gotos

[Laurence Finston]

On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Nick Chapman wrote:

> Or is it better to try transforming the grammar to reduce the number of gotos?
> The problem is, I don't know what aspects of a grammar will influence this.
>

Since the `gotos' occur in the actions rather than the grammar rules,
they are a matter of semantics rather than syntax.  Therefore,
it's quite likely that eliminating them won't be too tricky.

I've found that it's always possible to eliminate `gotos' by
putting code into functions, wrapping it in conditionals, or
both.

I don't think there's anything wrong with the occasional `goto', but
45,000 does seem like a lot to me.

Laurence