goto

plural gotos

1. computingAlternative letter-case form of GOTO.

   Overall, experience in the two decades that followed the publication of Dijkstra's letter showed the folly of producing goto-laden code.

plural GOTOs

1. computingAny construct which produces an unstructured jump in the flow of execution.

   The setjmp/longjmp facility in C is essentially a GOTO.

present singular third person GOTOs · participle present GOTOing · participle past GOTOed · past GOTOed

1. computingTo reach (a point in a program) by means of a GOTO instruction.

   If we were GOTOed from 310 we GOTO 320.

   1983, Charles Seiter, Robert Weiss, Pascal for BASIC Programmers, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

   5 more examples

   You can create loops by telling the computer to GOTO an earlier line.

   1983, C. Regena, Programmer's reference guide to the TI-99/4A, page 18

   Cross reference programs show program structure by displaying line numbers that are GOTOed or GOSUBed to from other lines in the program, and listing the line numbers in which different variables appear.

   1984, Microcomputing

   There is no way of falling into or GOTOing a procedure. The procedure can only be invoked by name as a subroutine.

   1987, Douglas S. Stivison, Introduction to Turbo Pascal, Sybex, →ISBN

   She and her hosts could not understand one another until Hopper remembered some COBOL commands. "MOVE," she said, pointing to herself. "GOTO Osaka Hotel." The Japanese immediately understood and delivered her to her lodging.

   1990, Computer Languages, Time-Life Books, →ISBN, page 44

   Next - goto the next entity defined in the module

   1991, Gerald C. Cohen, Structured Representation for Requirements and Specifications, NASA, page 25

plural Gotos

1. A surname from Japanese.