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I think the key-word about goto is well-placed.

Just out of curiosity, what do you consider well-placed? The only time I have ever used goto is to subvert the call stack. And I did that once.

You've mentioned before that goto has uses. Other than this Perl-specific reason, what else would you use it for?

Cheers,
Ovid

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