[not2b]

The error cleanup role is handled in a number of other languages (Ada, VHDL, Perl) by letting the programmer name a block and having a statement that terminates that block or (for a loop) goes to the next iteration, even if this terminates multiple loops. The effect is similar to the C goto way of doing that, but it's more controlled and easy for compilers to deal with.

[monocasa]

Oh, for sure, other languages have different idiomatic constructs that don't require such a heavy hammer as goto to achieve s similar effect.

Even in C, if you're writing Microsoft only code, seh is probably a better mechanism than goto error.

I'd argue that the defer statement in go (and the surprising side effects of it, like that it's function instead of block scope like you might otherwise expect) ultimately come from trying to wrap this idiom in a construct that's better supported by the language.

My point though is that in relatively standard, portable C, there are valid, idiomatic use cases of goto, and it's not quite so easy to say 'eww goto' in those very specific circumstances.