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Re (tilly) 1: Would you use 'goto' here?

by tilly (Archbishop)
on Dec 06, 2001 at 20:53 UTC ( [id://129986]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Would you use 'goto' here?

No, I would not.

It sounds like you have a top-level dispatch table, but (like a tree) you have a lower-level set of dispatches that need to happen on some nodes on specialized information. And what you are doing is handling special cases with a goto which will make it harder later to figure out, "How did I get here?" so that some subroutines can do double-duty.

Instead I would operate as follows:

sub dispatch_edit_product { my $query = $_[0]; if ($query->param("officeID")) { edit_office_product(@_); } else { edit_generic_product(@_); } } sub edit_generic_product { my ( $query, $db, $mod, $sec ) = @_; # ... } sub edit_office_product { # ... }
And now you leave complete call information for your debugging routine to report, and every function in the call stack makes perfect sense.

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