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This is interesting to me. For someone like me, whose first language was Apple BASIC, I find the loop labels easier to follow and I don't understand why others feel it "obscures" the flow. I find the use of labels to be more clear, actually.

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Re^3: returning to the outer loop
by GrandFather (Saint) on Sep 21, 2018 at 02:18 UTC

    The issue with goto based code is that it becomes almost impossible to tell how you get from one point in the code to another which obscures the relationship and intended ordering of the code. Spaghetti coding (using gotos) just doesn't scale well. For a couple of handfuls of code it's OK, but by the time you need to take your shoes and socks off the code starts to lose structure making it hard to understand code flow.

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Re^3: returning to the outer loop
by stevieb (Canon) on Sep 20, 2018 at 22:01 UTC

    ...because you can fall out of the loop, and have no idea logically where you remain.

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