When to use goto instead of control structure nesting?

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The goto statement seems very risky to use. When would it be a good scenario to use a goto statement instead of nesting control statements? Is it even a preferred way of controlling a program flow?

many dupes, including http://stackoverflow.com/questions/788903/valid-use-of-goto-for-error-management-in-c — , May 24 '09 at 00:05
and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/46586/goto-still-considered-harmful — Neil Trodden, May 24 '09 at 00:06

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 24 '09 at 00:11

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GoTo is good just for error handling in VB6, when you program in assembler or for a Pic. In high level programming it's considered a bad practice because "breaks" the program control flow and also makes the code harder to read.

answered May 24 '09 at 00:11

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