Thread Subject: the "GOTO" statement

Matlab really need a go to statement make it useful in
programs that design and check for certain criteria, as
encountered in civil engineering.
Go to would really be of great help.

"Abdulkadir Ovanimoh Ibrahim" <qadr79@yahoo.com> wrote in message
<g99ds6$i7r$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> Matlab really need a go to statement make it useful in
> programs that design and check for certain criteria, as
> encountered in civil engineering.
> Go to would really be of great help.

Or, just perhaps, what is needed is for novice
programmers to learn to program without
recourse to a goto.

help if
help else
help elseif
help switch
help while
help break

There are a few other things you might look
at too. You might just find you become a
better programmer for having done so.

John

"Abdulkadir Ovanimoh Ibrahim" <qadr79@yahoo.com> wrote in
message <g99ds6$i7r$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> Matlab really need a go to statement make it useful in
> programs that design and check for certain criteria, as
> encountered in civil engineering.
> Go to would really be of great help.

It may be comming:

<<http://blogs.mathworks.com/loren/2006/04/01/goto-coming-
at-long-last-vectorized-no-less/>>

I always thought a comefrom command would be useful also.

"someone " <someone@somewhere.net> wrote in message
<g99gka$mhp$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> "Abdulkadir Ovanimoh Ibrahim" <qadr79@yahoo.com> wrote
in
> message <g99ds6$i7r$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> > Matlab really need a go to statement make it useful in
> > programs that design and check for certain criteria, as
> > encountered in civil engineering.
> > Go to would really be of great help.
>
> It may be comming:
>
> <<http://blogs.mathworks.com/loren/2006/04/01/goto-coming-
> at-long-last-vectorized-no-less/>>
>
> I always thought a comefrom command would be useful also.

Oh, the endless hours of fun I've had debugging Fortran
code that uses computed GOTOs.

"Abdulkadir Ovanimoh Ibrahim" <qadr79@yahoo.com> writes:

>Matlab really need a go to statement make it useful in
>programs that design and check for certain criteria, as
>encountered in civil engineering.
>Go to would really be of great help.

Could you write some pseudo-code to show what you mean?
I'm sure civil engineering isn't the only discipline where
such situations arise.

"someone " <someone@somewhere.net> wrote in message
<g99gka$mhp$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> "Abdulkadir Ovanimoh Ibrahim" <qadr79@yahoo.com> wrote in
> message <g99ds6$i7r$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> > Matlab really need a go to statement make it useful in
> > programs that design and check for certain criteria, as
> > encountered in civil engineering.
> > Go to would really be of great help.
>
> It may be comming:
>
> <<http://blogs.mathworks.com/loren/2006/04/01/goto-coming-
> at-long-last-vectorized-no-less/>>
>
> I always thought a comefrom command would be useful also.
>

here's for beginner programmers who are tempted to use the goto:

http://xkcd.com/292/

"someone " <someone@somewhere.net> wrote in message
<g99gka$mhp$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> "Abdulkadir Ovanimoh Ibrahim" <qadr79@yahoo.com> wrote in
> message <g99ds6$i7r$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> > Matlab really need a go to statement make it useful in
> > programs that design and check for certain criteria, as
> > encountered in civil engineering.
> > Go to would really be of great help.
>
> It may be comming:
>
> <<http://blogs.mathworks.com/loren/2006/04/01/goto-coming-
> at-long-last-vectorized-no-less/>>
>
> I always thought a comefrom command would be useful also.
>

Yeah, a comefrom would definitely help! For the moment, my m
files are always somewhat too easy to debug...

And I'm sure marco would find a lot of applications to goto
/ comefrom commands!

back to serious: It's weird that the MATLAB guys are
considering to implement it...

"Gavrilo Bozovic" <gavrilo.bozovic@helbling.ch> wrote in message
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> "someone " <someone@somewhere.net> wrote in message
> <g99gka$mhp$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
>> "Abdulkadir Ovanimoh Ibrahim" <qadr79@yahoo.com> wrote in
>> message <g99ds6$i7r$1@fred.mathworks.com>...

*snip*

>> <<http://blogs.mathworks.com/loren/2006/04/01/goto-coming-
>> at-long-last-vectorized-no-less/>>

*snip*

> back to serious: It's weird that the MATLAB guys are
> considering to implement it...

You might want to look at the date on which Loren posted that blog posting
... and then if that doesn't explain it, read this Wikipedia page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day

--
Steve Lord
slord@mathworks.com

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> "Gavrilo Bozovic" <gavrilo.bozovic@helbling.ch> wrote in
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> > "someone " <someone@somewhere.net> wrote in message
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> >> "Abdulkadir Ovanimoh Ibrahim" <qadr79@yahoo.com> wrote in
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>
> *snip*
>
> >> <<http://blogs.mathworks.com/loren/2006/04/01/goto-coming-
> >> at-long-last-vectorized-no-less/>>
>
> *snip*
>
> > back to serious: It's weird that the MATLAB guys are
> > considering to implement it...
>
> You might want to look at the date on which Loren posted
that blog posting
> ... and then if that doesn't explain it, read this
Wikipedia page:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day
>
> --
> Steve Lord
> slord@mathworks.com
>
>

OMG... okay, I should have guessed that something was wrong
with this article :D

to try and not to look completely ridiculous: I hadn't read
the whole article! However, the goto(NaN) is really something!

Abdulkadir Ovanimoh Ibrahim wrote on 29-Aug-08 11:07 :
> Matlab really need a go to statement make it useful in
> programs that design and check for certain criteria, as
> encountered in civil engineering.
> Go to would really be of great help.


HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

...does the phrase, 'spaghetti code' mean anything to you?