The problem of GOTO is that C doesn't have one. If C had one, and Pascal didn't have a GOTO, they would blame Pascal for not having it. In assembler GOTOs make a lot of sense (i.e. JMP and Jxx), and it's weird C doesn't have one, after all C tries to be the lowest level of the highest level languages. It's great Pascal have both high and low level features.
In my opinion nested functions are a more structured way of creating a program, that's something you don't have in C. And when you have to write something like: int x, int y, int z, int w, int a, int b, int c... Instead of the faster, more elegant and more readable Pascal way: x, y, z, w, a, b, c: Integer I don't understand why people say that C is a faster language... neither the compiler beats Pascal. Also, what's the advantage of having a return, it forces to quit the function, and that's lack of freedom. If you wanted to keep working with the value, you would have to create a temporal variable, which is less readable, especially if you are already working with other temps. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
