Sorry, I forgot the smiley on my post. Bob
---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> > From: Brendan Eich <[email protected]> > To: Bob Myers <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 16:45:38 -0700 > Subject: Re: Label statement moveable > Bob Myers wrote: > >> Can we also get goto statements? >> > > No, although an out-of-shipping-date Opera engine supported them. > > Also, if we going to do gotos, then please implement computed GOTO. >> FORTRAN has had that already for like 50 years. >> > > Sorry, JS is not Fortran. Goto considered harmful, Dijkstra said -- plus > naive Java verifier complexity is O(n^4) without extra stack/typemaps, due > to goto. > > G-O-T-O in JS is spelled "Proper Tail Calls" and is in ES6. > > /be
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