Why doesn't JavaScript have a goto command?

[electrician]

Perl has it, Basic has it, Fortran has it. What is so difficult about
creating a goto command for JavaScript. Just set up a label and say go
to it.

[web.dev]

el*********@ele ctrician.com wrote:

Perl has it, Basic has it, Fortran has it. What is so difficult about
creating a goto command for JavaScript. Just set up a label and say go
to it.

Javascript does indeed have a "goto" keyword but is just a reserved
keyword.

It is not the matter of difficulty of implementation but rather the use
of "goto" statements that generally leans towards spaghetti code. And
yes, it can also be argued that very conservative use of the statement
can be helpful at times.

Here's a very classic article:

title: Go To Statement Considered Harmful
url: http://www.acm.org/classics/oct95/

[Matt Kruse]

el*********@ele ctrician.com wrote:

Perl has it, Basic has it, Fortran has it. What is so difficult about
creating a goto command for JavaScript. Just set up a label and say
go to it.

There is no logcal need for goto.

The lack of goto forces you to think of the correct way to solve your
problem, rather than relying on spaghetti code :)

--
Matt Kruse
http://www.JavascriptToolbox.com
http://www.AjaxToolbox.com

[Noozer]

<el*********@el ectrician.com> wrote in message
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Perl has it, Basic has it, Fortran has it. What is so difficult about
creating a goto command for JavaScript. Just set up a label and say go
to it.

Because, if you need to use a GOTO, then you are doing something wrong.

[Jonas Raoni]

Noozer wrote:

<el*********@el ectrician.com> wrote in message
news:11******** **************@ i39g2000cwa.goo glegroups.com.. .

Perl has it, Basic has it, Fortran has it. What is so difficult about
creating a goto command for JavaScript. Just set up a label and say go
to it.

Because, if you need to use a GOTO, then you are doing something wrong.

Not at all, sometimes you have to get out of two loops and with a goto
you can achieve this easily, goto is a reserved word, but JavaScript
has labels.

while(confirm(" ok?"))
MyLabel:
while(1)
while(1)
break MyLabel;
--
Jonas Raoni Soares Silva
http://www.jsfromhell.com

[Tony]

Noozer wrote:

<el*********@el ectrician.com> wrote in message
news:11******** **************@ i39g2000cwa.goo glegroups.com.. .

Perl has it, Basic has it, Fortran has it. What is so difficult about
creating a goto command for JavaScript. Just set up a label and say go
to it.

Because, if you need to use a GOTO, then you are doing something wrong.

Ever program in Assembly?

[electrician]

<There is no logcal need for goto.

The lack of goto forces you to think of the correct way to solve your
problem, rather than relying on spaghetti code :)

So what about those of us that like programming in spaghetti code? Who
are you or the creators of JavaScript to force me to use their
programming concepts? I like Goto and want it and have worked for
hours to try something else when goto would have saved me precious
time. This is another example of academia forcing us to use useless
non productive time to preserve some higher than thou intellectual crap.

[Zif]

el*********@ele ctrician.com wrote:

<There is no logcal need for goto.

The lack of goto forces you to think of the correct way to solve your
problem, rather than relying on spaghetti code :)
So what about those of us that like programming in spaghetti code? Who
are you or the creators of JavaScript to force me to use their
programming concepts?
Someone has a gun at your head, forcing you to use JavaScript? Heck, you
must be one gun programmer.

You can't even be bothered to publish web pages that accommodate
browsers other than IE, why should anyone care about your opinion?

I like Goto and want it and have worked for
hours to try something else when goto would have saved me precious
time. This is another example of academia forcing us to use useless
non productive time to preserve some higher than thou intellectual crap.

But you'd like to force them to implement goto because you want them
too? Because it fits with your concept of programming learned where?
What substantive argument can you provide to show that goto is of any
benefit to JavaScript?

Your 'calculator'[1] stands as a public record of your programming
ability. Claiming ignorance of standards and design principles as a
virtue does not make it so. Did you fix the errors that were pointed
out to you?
1.
<URL:http://groups.google.c o.uk/group/comp.lang.javas cript/browse_frm/thread/3b545c991e656da 6/4355f865f033ecb e?q=How+do+you+ stop+a+javascri pt+program%3F&r num=1#4355f865f 033ecbe>

--
Zif

[RobG]

Jonas Raoni wrote:

Noozer wrote:

<el*********@ electrician.com > wrote in message
news:11****** *************** *@i39g2000cwa.g ooglegroups.com ...

Perl has it, Basic has it, Fortran has it. What is so difficult about
creating a goto command for JavaScript. Just set up a label and say go
to it.

Because, if you need to use a GOTO, then you are doing something wrong.

Not at all, sometimes you have to get out of two loops and with a goto
you can achieve this easily, goto is a reserved word, but JavaScript
has labels.

while(confirm(" ok?"))
MyLabel:
while(1)
while(1)
break MyLabel;

That is not the typical use of goto. A better pseudo-code example would be:

while (...){
if (...) {
goto foo;
} else if (...) {
goto bar;
}
}

foo: { }
bar: { }

But you can achieve the same result without using goto.

goto is long dead. If you want to support it's revival, present a
scenario where it is required, or where it is significantly more
efficient than existing methods.
--
Rob

[Jonas Raoni]

RobG wrote:

Jonas Raoni wrote:
That is not the typical use of goto. A better pseudo-code example would
be:

while (...){
if (...) {
goto foo;
} else if (...) {
goto bar;
}
}

foo: { }
bar: { }
Sure, this is a better example of a goto, but JavaScript has not the
goto statement:

alert(goto = 1);

There's just the label, which is similar to a goto, but just works
together with break and continue.
But you can achieve the same result without using goto.
Sure :)
goto is long dead. If you want to support it's revival, present a
scenario where it is required, or where it is significantly more
efficient than existing methods.

One day you'll need to exit from a two nested loop, in this day you'll
see that a label is useful for something.

I've used the label something around two times, sure I could avoid it,
but it would require extra checking in the inner loop, in this specific
situation I'm all for the labels ;]
--
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Jonas Raoni Soares Silva
http://www.jsfromhell.com