[Timothycquinn]

I had a debate at work about whether guards are considered spaghetti code. The same person also thought that you should never use GOTO's. He learned these rules in his comp-sci classes and never questioned them; even after years in the real world.

Personally, I use guards heavily to reduce nesting and if the language supports goto's, I'll use them if it make sense to improve code flow. However, its been a very long time since I've needed to use goto :)