alt Hacker NewsThat's the kind of thing I was thinking about. You can solve that with a switch in C3, but it's not as nice. However, this accounts for no more than 1% of all my goto uses (from a quick inspection), which is too little to build a feature from (discipline is needed to prevent a language from ballooning, it's hard to say no). I am looking for some use for it that can redeem its inclusion.
I agree it's very rare. I have this goto. A few that go to common return block that can be handled by other means and the rest is either error handling or things handled by labelled break or switch.
I mean we know you can program without it and defer/labelled switch and labelled break/continue cover 99%+ of use cases of it. I am still not convinced those are in fact easier to read but I get it's a reasonable design choice to make.