I’m studying programming, and I don’t agree woth my teacher. She basically said that if we use break (and continue too maybe) our test is an instant fail. She’s reasoning is that it makes the code harder to read, and breaks the flow of it or something. (I didn’t get her yapping tbh)
I can’t understand why break would do anything of the sorts. I asked around and noone agreed with the teacher. So I came here. Is there a benefit to not using breaks or continues? And if you think she’s wrong, please explain why, briefly even. We do enough down talking on almost all teachers she doesn’t need more online.
No, there is no benefit. Actually avoiding continue or break like statements makes code overly complicated.
Maybe she made a mental short circuit with constructs like set_jump and long_jump (which are evil).
I’ve 30+ years of C in my portfolio, with >1000 programs small and big, with millions of LOC, and I’d say her stand on break and continue is utterly stupid.
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No, there is no benefit. Actually avoiding continue or break like statements makes code overly complicated.
Maybe she made a mental short circuit with constructs like set_jump and long_jump (which are evil).
I’ve 30+ years of C in my portfolio, with >1000 programs small and big, with millions of LOC, and I’d say her stand on break and continue is utterly stupid.