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by pjmlp 2962 days ago
It is, as an unstructured "anything goes" statement.

As for continue, break, and return, they have an explicit workflow, existing or resuming the current scope.

The only language where unconditional jumps make sense is Assembly.

The last time I actually wrote a goto statement was probably in some BASIC dialect.
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CodeArtisan 2962 days ago
>The only language where unconditional jumps make sense is Assembly.

In Scheme, because a lambda expression is a closure and shall be optimized with tail call elimination, it is considered as the ultimate goto. It's goto but with procedural abstraction.

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pjmlp 2962 days ago
Yes, which means you are sure where the flow goes next, instead of hunting down goto spaghetti.

Even call/cc is more structured than plain gotos.

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CodeArtisan 2962 days ago
I am not sure about that. What about high order programming

    (define (goto proc) 
      (proc))
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pjmlp 2962 days ago
It still has a call stack, goto only goes forward.
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