Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

On Thu, 21 Nov 2024 20:31:11 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

   Even today, Free Pascal supports GOTO ... but you LABEL the
   destination point so you don't have to worry about changing line
   numbers like with older versions of BASIC. FORTRAN did, some versions
   still do, support I think two version of GO TO ... labeled and
   'calculated'. Sometimes you just CAN'T cleanly structure what you
   want - and GOTO is a secret way out of some deep deep if-then's and
   while's and such.

The computer goto was declared 'obsolescent' in F95 in favor of 'case' but
afaik it still will compile.

Put enough lipstick on the pig and you wind up with a vtable.