julian_t on Strangest Programming Language Feature?

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Snobol... where patterns are first class constructs, and every line can end with a GOTO. That definitely lets you write some very, er, compact code. But it was superb to program in.

And how about the assigned GOTO in older versions of Fortran? "GOTO N" where N is an integer variable whose value will be known at runtime.

Happy days...

knome 12y

I'm sure you'll be pleased to find that gcc has kept the assigned goto alive as a c extension.

    #include <stdio.h>

    int main( int argc, char ** argv ){

      void * p = && lol ;

     bounce:
      goto *p ;

     lol:
      printf("lol %p\n", p);
      p = && wtf;
      goto bounce;

     wtf:
      printf("wtf %p\n", p);
      p = && lol;
      goto bounce;

    }

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