Developers cannot live without it.

[Dalek Dave]

Did a little Birdie tell you that?

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[StM0n]

No language would be perfect w/o goto...

goto... the little scratch on the roof of your mouth that would heal if only you could stop tonguing it, but you can't.

(yes|no|maybe)*

[Dalek Dave]

:thumbsup: :)

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[Dalek Dave]

To be fair I only use it in Try exceptions.

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[Henry Minute]

Nope! It was a military chap. A Colonel something-or-other.

Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.

[Dalek Dave]

A Colonel? He has come a Fair Way.

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[S Houghtelin]

I use the goto statement all the time! :-D I need to goto the hardware store. Goto to you room! I have to goto the bathroom. ..and... Goto hell!

It was broke, so I fixed it.

[Chris Losinger]

if it's good enough for the CPU, it's good enough for me.

image processing toolkits | batch image processing

[cptKoala]

Hmm... Birdy and colonel... Why am I thinking of Michael Caine in 'The Eagle Has Landed'?

[Dalek Dave]

A film about Germans. You should never mix Germans and Golf, they always end up in the Bunker.

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[cptKoala]

And here's me thinking Golf was German :doh:

[Dalek Dave]

This[^] is German. This[^] is Scottish.

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[cptKoala]

Aah yes... The second one is definitely not German as it is missing trenches... Which gently brings me to an episode of Fawlty Towers. John can sure swing his legs about in the air.

[vl2]

That's a very wise decision. Lua is a meta-language. Any meta-language MUST provide goto - otherwise implementing higher level constructs could be too complicated.

[CPallini]

:confused: Are you joking? :-D

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[vl2]

No, I'm 100% serious. A typical example: implementing a high-level eDSL for, say, generating a Packrat parser out of the PEG grammar. The most straghtforward translation scheme will involve making a function for each terminal, with a single "failure" label at the end, and all the failed sub-expressions will just goto there. But for a target language without a goto, a compilation scheme would be significantly more complicated.

[CPallini]

That's just a 'lack of goto' problem. I cannot understand why you define Lua 'meta-language'. Furthermore, in my opinion, it is a complete (and fairly powerful) language.

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[Mark AJA]

In BBC BASIC "On Error Off" is used to turn off any error trapping. In Visual Basic "On Error Goto 0" is used to turn off error trapping. But it doesn't go to line zero when an error occur it displays a message and exits the program. So the GOTO command survives but doesn't go to the line you asked it to goto.

[Sander Rossel]

On Error Go To Bed :)

It's an OO world.

public class Naerling : Lazy<Person>{
public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
}

[CPallini]

public class Naerling : Person{
public void DoWork(){ throw Unknown(); }
}

FFY. :)

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