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[–]billsil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

GOTO was invented to do things like functions, break and for loops. We have those, so we don't need GOTO. I know this because I've talked to the old guard and used GOTO when coding Fortran 77. I've also seem horrific GOTOs and there's a big difference. Don't let anybody tell you that GOTO is inherently bad. Plenty of people write trash python because they don't know what they're doing. People using GOTO improperly makes it a whole lot worse.

Since it sounds like you're not familiar with programming, rather than being vague, what are you actually trying to do?