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gizi
on Aug 23, 2015
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On being the maintainer and sole developer of SPIT...
Gotos were shot down more than 40 years ago and they have never really made a comeback since. They are still used for error handling in the kernel, I've seen.
ajdlinux
on Aug 23, 2015
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And error handling in many C applications, since in the absence of exceptions they're very useful for doing cleanup.
xorcist
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Exceptions is just a fancy word for gotos.
olavk
on Aug 23, 2015
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Just like functions are just a fancy word for gotos?
xorcist
on Aug 23, 2015
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Functions are a fancy word for gosubs!
claystu
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Java employs a limited Goto in the form of labelled continue statements. C# includes an explicit Goto statement for breaking out of loops.
Goto is definitely still out there.
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