[fpc-pascal] The reason why linus torvalds hate-pascal
Marco van de Voort
marcov at stack.nl
Tue Apr 15 10:17:58 CEST 2008
> Ah....the old goto arguing....how many beers have gone with it!
> Linus is just right, since everyday the purists of the OO languages
> still can't live without writing a GOTO; they just call it in another
> "politically correct" way:
>
> raise Exception.Create("TA-DA!")
There is a fundamental difference. You don't know where exactly this will
end up (jump and destination are decoupled), and that destination can differ
depending on calling sequence.
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