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   Anton Ertl to Gerry Jackson   
   Re: Fetch string from comment   
   05 Mar 25 16:50:13   
   
   From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at   
      
   Gerry Jackson  writes:   
   >On 04/03/2025 15:55, mhx wrote:   
   >> How to code a state-machine without goto's?   
   ...   
   >But you probably knew about that so why doesn't it count as gotoless?   
      
   Does it make a difference in understandability whether you implement a   
   state transition as "goto state123" or in the Dijkstra-compatible   
   "state = state123"?  So why should I care whether it is gotoless?   
      
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