[Info-vax] Coding with/without RDBMS

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 10/18/2021 6:18 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 19, 2021 at 2:33:00 AM UTC+13, Arne Vajhøj
> wrote:
>> I can only think of one case where I will prefer GOTO over
>> alternatives: in a language without exceptions to jump to cleanup
>> code in case of problems.
> 
> That sounds wrong. Don’t do that. Why? Because cleanup is something
> you always have to do, problems or no problems. So you never want to
> jump *to* it or *around* it, you always want to go *through* it.

The crystal ball where you saw that the cleanup code was not executed
in the happy case does not work any more and need to be replaced.

Arne