Have you actually used Go 1's goto? There's not a lot it can actually do. It's there for generated code state machines, and that's almost all it's good for. But

Have you actually used Go 1's goto? There's not a lot it can actually do. It's there for generated code state machines, and that's almost all it's good for. But yes, goto will stay in the absence of a very compelling benefit to take it out, a benefit that would far outweigh the cost of breaking all the programs that use it.