On Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 02:36:31PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > And "goto" is fine, as long as you have legible syntax and don't use > it to generate spaghetti code. Being able to write bad code with goto > doesn't make 'goto' bad - you can write bad code with *anything*. Put it another way, one can massage a code into a strictly structured (no goto, only one exit from each block, etc.) equivalent and every hard-to-answer question about the original will map to the replacement - just as hard as it had been. I suspect that folks with "goto is a Bad Word(tm)" hardon had been told that goto was always avoidable, but had never bothered to read the proof...
