[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#9406) goto failures

["Christian Knoke" <chrisk@xxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9406 >

On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 09:01:07PM -0400, Jason Dorje Short wrote:
> Christian Knoke wrote:
> >Number 2.
> >
> >unit leaves the street and climbs hill instead.
> 
> The problem is that moves are random and goto assumes the worst case. 
> So leaving the road to go over the hill takes 2 moves, while staying on 
> the street takes 2 moves in the worst case (but most likely only 1 move).
> 
> The same thing often happens with rivers.
> 
> This is not easy to fix so long as moves are random.

The results are partially very bad and make it dangerous to use GOTO.

Christian

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