Word info

goto

Speech parts

1. goto - Noun

2. goto - Verb

3. Goto - Proper noun

Meaning

GOTO (plural GOTOs)

(programming) Any construct which produces an unstructured jump in the flow of execution.
The setjmp/longjmp facility in C is essentially a GOTO.

GOTO (third-person singular simple present GOTOs, present participle GOTOing, simple past and past participle GOTOed)

(programming) To reach (a point in a program) by means of a GOTO instruction.

goto (plural gotos)

(computing) Alternative letter-case form of GOTO
Overall, experience in the two decades that followed the publication of Dijkstra's letter showed the folly of producing goto-laden code.

Goto (plural Gotos)

A surname from Japanese.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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Examples

If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there. Ken Thompson

I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either. Larry Wall

Gotos aren't damnable to begin with. If you aren't smart enough to distinguish what's bad about some gotos from all gotos, goto hell. Erik Naggum

Adding unbounded loops (WHILE, GOTO) makes the language partially recursive, or Turing-complete; Floop is such, as are almost all real-world computer languages. Source: Internet

A Digistar 3 full-dome projector system was installed alongside GOTO, which allowed for full-dome movies in conjunction with a traditional star talk about the constellations. Source: Internet

After a reduction, the next state is found by looking up the goto table entry for top of the stack (i.e. current state) and the reduced rule's LHS (i.e. non-terminal). Source: Internet

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