me: goto isn't bad to use in all cases, you just have to be careful with it
me, shortly thereafter: turns out my insurance doesn't cover pitchfork wounds

@typhlosion
me: everything is goto when you disassemble the bytecode deep enough.

@Fuego well of course, same if you're hand rolling assembly, but that doesn't stop people from complaining endlessly and needlessly about its use in higher level contexts

@typhlosion I feel strongly that complaining about HOW to code is people doing something else so they don't HAVE to code.

@Fuego @typhlosion To be sure, coding standards on a team are a good way to help people spot what I've come to call "code smell," the Bad Ideas that I've just learned Not To Do because they're inefficient, but explaining _why_ is hard and takes a long time to understand. That, however, assumes you have a team, and they care about such things.

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