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by tinus_hn 1467 days ago
Sure, there are uses. But they are not in this article. The article argues that without goto, an if statement can only conditionally execute one statement.

> The paper doesn't explain to us what would be the use of the "if" statement without a "goto" to redirect the flow of execution: Should all our postconditions consist of a single statement[…]?

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Yes, the article is a joke.