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goto does not have intention so the reader of code has no idea what is it for (and its uses are not limited by loops, branching or switches).

• gpderetta 10y ago
  but goto does point to a label. By giving it a meaningful name you can convey more information than with other flow control statements (except for function calls). On the other hand, I think I only used goto once in production in my career (to get out of a double nested loop). And it had a bug.
  • techno_modus 10y ago
    As usual, missing semantics/intention can be encoded in labels using some kind of naming conventions (or in comments). It is however also a dangerous approach because naming conventions are not controlled and not enforced by the language.
    • gpderetta 10y ago
      And that's why we call all our functions fn_### and only rely on types to convey information. /s