GOTO
verbEtymology From go to, a keyword for this purpose in many programming languages.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences To 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:
- 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:
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- 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 module1991, Gerald C. Cohen, Structured Representation for Requirements and Specifications, NASA, page 25: