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benj111today at 2:22 PM1 replyview on HN

On the other hand some people have things to ward off evil demons, and aren't bothered by evil demons.

The parent has actually done the thing, and found no issues, I don't think you can hand wave that away with a biased metaphor.

Otherwise you get 'Goto considered harmful' and people not using it even when it fits.


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pjmlptoday at 2:33 PM

As proven by many languages without native support for plain old goto, it isn't really required when proper structured programming constructs are available, even if it happens to be a goto under the hood, managed by the compiler.

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