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Goto

In computer programming, goto is a control flow statement that transfers control to another line of source code. Unlike a function call that supports returning to the point of call, goto does not. The statement is denoted differently by programming language; some use lowercase (goto), some use uppercase (GOTO), and others are case-insensitive. A few…

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Goto

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related to Criticism · 38
Goto → According, ACM, ALGOL, An, At, Brian Kernighan, CACM, Communications, Dennis Ritchie, Dijkstra, Dijkstra's, Dijkstra's On, Donald Knuth's Structured Programming, Edsger, Edsger Dijkstra, GNU Pascal Coding Standards, Go-to, GOTO Considered Harmful' Considered, Harmful, Heinz Zemanek
related to Tail call · 14
Goto → ACM, Although Steele's, Fortran, Further, Gerald Jay Sussman, Guy, In, In Scheme, JUMP, Lisp, MIT, Seattle, Since, Steele
related to Computed and assigned · 13
Goto → An, ASSIGNed, BASIC, CASEconstruct, Fortran, However, In, In Fortran, Jumping, On GoTo'statement, The, The Fortranassignstatement, Visual Basic
related to Language support · 7
Goto → For, However, Languages, NET, Support, They, Visual Basic
related to Continuation · 5
Goto → In, In Scheme, The, The Common Lisp GO, This
related to Emulated goto · 5
Goto → Java, JavaScript, One, Python, There
is a · 4
Goto → 1968 letter by Edsger Dijkstra called Go-to statement considered harmful, control flow statement that transfers control to another line of source code, much faster alternative.Another use of goto is to modify poorly factored legacy code, optimal language construct to use
related to Examples · 4
Goto → DOS, In, Syntax, The
related to More accepted patterns · 3
Goto → Error, Situations, While
related to PL/I label variable · 3
Goto → PL/I, The, The PL/I

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Gotois acontrol flow statement that transfers control to another line of source code0.90text
Gotois a1968 letter by Edsger Dijkstra called Go-to statement considered harmful0.90text
Gotois aoptimal language construct to use0.90text
Gotois amuch faster alternative.Another use of goto is to modify poorly factored legacy code0.90text
Scheme generally do not have gotoinstance ofFunctional programming languages0.80text
instead using continuations.Computedinstance ofFunctional programming languages0.80text
assignedIn Fortraninstance ofFunctional programming languages0.80text
a computed goto jumps to one of several labels in a listinstance ofFunctional programming languages0.80text
based on the value of an expressioninstance ofFunctional programming languages0.80text
Javainstance ofSome widely used modern programming languages0.80text
Python lack the goto statementinstance ofSome widely used modern programming languages0.80text
resource deallocation.Reducing code duplication.Implementing a finite-state machine using a state transition tableinstance ofparticularly cleanup code0.80text

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