'goto', as an indicator of good language

[user1234]

On Thursday, 8 September 2022 at 16:33:58 UTC, AnimusPEXUS wrote:
> There was a discussion sometime ago in a Russian Dlang Telegram 
> chat about 'goto' keyword. And there was some empiric theory, 
> stating 'all good languages support goto statement'. Nor Rust, 
> nor Carbon, nor Zig will never going to overcome D or C++
> because of this. Language should give possibilities, not take 
> them away.

This is what Zig did see 
https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/630.
I think that the rationale is quite good. Goto solves *almost* no 
problem.

> And in some cases, goto able to make code more readable, more 
> sane and more understandable. Also, goto is much safer in 
> language with GC.

That's a good point.

> [corresponding section in 
> wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goto#Criticism)

See also https://wiki.c2.com/?GoodUseOfGoto