Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4 8/8] ioreq-server: bring the PCI hotplug controller implementation into Xen

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 09.04.14 at 16:59, <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jan Beulich writes ("RE: [PATCH v4 8/8] ioreq-server: bring the PCI hotplug 
> controller implementation into Xen"):
>> On 09.04.14 at 15:42, <Paul.Durrant@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Personally I find using forward jumps to fail labels the most
>> > readable form of error exit - I wish they were used more widely.
>> 
>> Interesting - almost everyone/-thing involved in educating me in
>> programming skills recommended to try to get away without goto
>> altogether, unless programming Fortran, Basic or some such.
> 
> I think the hatred of goto is a "lie to children".  It is easy to
> misuse goto and make spaghetti.

Right, and when I see goto I unconditionally see spaghetti (which
in many cases I'm right with, but I learned to accept cases where
otherwise e.g. deep indentation would make code hard to read/
follow).

Jan


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