Label statement moveable

[Bob Myers]

Sorry, I forgot the smiley on my post.
Bob

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> From: Brendan Eich <brendan at mozilla.org>
> To: Bob Myers <rtm at gol.com>
> Cc: es-discuss at mozilla.org
> 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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