I do not use goto in my code. What do I do wrong? :) Ok, I have to admit that I used it on C64 in the 80s.
Anyways, exceptions are sort of gotos or at least they can behave that way.
Anyways, exceptions are sort of gotos or at least they can behave that way.
It does, yes, although many Lisps got a pretty limited backend for this sort of things. My preferred metaprogramming environment must have a fallthrough mode for allowing generating low-level code where Lisp semantics is not sufficient. Rust seems like a very good target platform in this sense, so the lack of goto really hurts.
> It doesn't have goto.
Of course they do (tagbody in Common Lisp, for example). And when they don't, it's often relatively easy to add one.
I was wrong, however it is much more limited than the goto everywhere from C, as where the labels are located is clearly defined in the tagbody and not in every possible statement.