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This article discusses some common usage scenarios of the goto keyword and shows alternative approaches.

comic by xkcd.com ^

If someone would have asked me a few years ago when to use the goto keyword I would have answered (in capital letters): NEVER!! GOTO’S ARE EVIL! (and obviously you get attacked by raptors if you use them)

Like many I have been educated to have a emotional reaction when someone mentions the goto keyword. Emotions have nothing to do with good practices, so lets take a pragmatic look on some of the common usages of goto and see what the real value of the goto keyword is.