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GOTO
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goto göto go to go-to
English
Goto (command)
Etymology
From en go to, a keyword for this purpose in many programming languages.
Pronunciation
en /ˈɡəʊ.tuː/ RP
en /ˈɡoʊ.tu/ /ˈɡoʊ.tu/ GA
Noun
en programming Any construct which produces an unstructured jump in the flow of execution.
en The setjmp/longjmp facility in C is essentially a GOTO.
Derived terms
en GOTO-less
Translations
Finnish: fi GOTO, fi GOTO-lause
German: de GOTO n, de GOTO-Anweisung f, de GOTO-Befehl m
Polish: pl instrukcja skoku f
Verb
en programming To reach (a point in a program) by means of a GOTO instruction.
en 1983 Charles Seiter; Robert Weiss Pascal for BASIC Programmers Addison Wesley Publishing Company If we were GOTOed from 310 we GOTO 320.
en 1983 C. Regena Programmer's reference guide to the TI-99/4A 18 You can create loops by telling the computer to GOTO an earlier line.
en 1984 Microcomputing 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.
en 1987 Douglas S. Stivison Introduction to Turbo Pascal Sybex 9780895884145 There is no way of falling into or GOTOing a procedure. The procedure can only be invoked by name as a subroutine.
en 1990 Computer Languages 44 Time-Life Books 0-8094-7574-X 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.
en 1991 Gerald C. Cohen Structured Representation for Requirements and Specifications NASA 25 Next - goto the next entity defined in the module
Anagrams
en goot Togo goot to go togo