Talk:C Coding Standard
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--Peter gummer01:14, 22 July 2009 (UTC): Possibly the most important item in a C coding standard is "do not use jump instructions". In other words, goto and continue must never be used; break must never be used except in a switch statement; and return must never be used except as the final instruction of a non-void function.
--Clemahieu 02:42, 22 July 2009 (UTC): Hear hear!
--manus 16:59, 22 July 2009 (UTC): I'll add a section about that, but know that in the Eiffel runtime we have old code where those jump instructions are used quite heavily unfortunately.
--Peter gummer 23:22, 22 July 2009 (UTC) Yes, I know, I've seen it. It really shocked me to see Eiffel programmers writing unstructured code. That's why I mentioned it ;-)
