Inspired by the goto comments in the lounge today... Msny years ago a co-worker showed me his first program after we had banned the use of goto statements at our company. His program had a main loop like: If var = 1 gosub 100 If var = 2 gosub 200 and so on.. and inside each subroutine before leaving, it would set var to whatever it needed to be next. An abstracted goto ! This is back in the days before OO and events. This was procedural type code and in this case.. a goto would have been clearly easier to understand.