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Another GOTO to avoid

Mihail Malo on February 08, 2019

Another GOTO hiding in your code Or, in clickbait terms: Is your programming structured? The answer may surprise you! Just a tidbit ...
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Mihail Malo •

Thank you for reading and your feedback. I am aware it's a very contrived one, but I wanted it to be extremely short as I wanted to copy paste it many times over to show every step.

  1. That would be value * 2 + 1, not value + 2 
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  1. That's a very different language, and without going into how recursion is memory-performant there and other niceties like pattern matching, the fact it's the only way justifies it already. Coming back to this case, I'd like to note that there's no iteration in the task at hand, yet when we first got rid of the switch case, we got a little runtime recursion.