[R] R equivalent to Fortran, GAUSS, or Perl's "goto"

Barry Rowlingson B.Rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk
Wed Aug 10 11:23:17 CEST 2005


Warren Lamboy wrote:
> Does R have something equivalent to the "goto" in Perl?
> If so, can you please tell me what it is?  I cannot find
> it in the Ref Manual or the Language Manual.

What was true in 1968 is still true now:

http://www.acm.org/classics/oct95/

Of course Perl has one, but then in Perl there's always more than one 
way to shoot yourself in the foot.

Baz




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