> Signals are implicit GOTOs in the sense of INTERCAL's COMEFROM. What? > guard How does it help to have an inverted if statement? Not sure what is the point

> Signals are implicit GOTOs in the sense of INTERCAL's COMEFROM. What? > guard How does it help to have an inverted if statement? Not sure what is the point, can do without. Goto isn't necessarily for resource cleanup. The common usage is as an early break from the currently executed block, to what comes after the block. Which is often cleanup code, but not necessarily.