goto a no-go?

[Dicebot]

On Tuesday, 1 October 2013 at 11:35:35 UTC, Chris wrote:
> Thanks, this is what I was looking for, a more elegant 
> solution. I was going through some old code and saw the odd 
> goto statement. scope() shows of course that some sort of goto 
> mechanism is pretty handy (no matter what the textbooks say).

goto is not avoided because of functionality it enables but 
because of unhygienic way it is implemented. scope guards offer 
part of that functionality in much more clean and safe way and 
there is nothing wrong about using them.