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The attitude towards goto really struck a chord with me. It's "powerful" and "easy to explain". It's also "simple" to add to the VM. It's in, and purity be damn
by telemachos 15y ago
The attitude towards goto really struck a chord with me. It's "powerful" and "easy to explain". It's also "simple" to add to the VM. It's in, and purity be damned.
There's something to be said here about pragmatism versus purity. Maybe also a comparison with the recent posts about OO and Rails. I'm hand-waving. I mean to write something longer about this, but I'm still trying to decide what exactly I make of it.
- justincormack 15y agoA lot of people wanted it is Lua is quite widely used as a code generation target, and generating gotos is useful often to match other language constructs.