It's really a matter of both taste and situation. I've seen some very compelling examples from the Linux kernel where this is definitively easier to follow than

It's really a matter of both taste and situation. I've seen some very compelling examples from the Linux kernel where this is definitively easier to follow than the alternatives (Linus has made some good defences of goto for this purpose), but I've never felt it was the clearest option in any code I've written myself.