My suggestion would be try something out, and then post it here to see how monks react to it. If you try something that involves using GOTO, some are likely to comment on how ugly/obtuse/unmaintainable that appears to be, and will offer more elegant/sane/well-structured alternatives. If you try some other approach but in some clumsy fashion, you'll get the same helpful advice. If you post something that turns out to be a really good solution, you'll get more XP.

I used GOTO rather a lot in my grad-student days, when I was programming in Fortran; I struggled a bit to break that habit as I moved to C, but it worked. These days, after 14 years writing Perl, I consider myself unable to use GOTO competently, and I'm happy to report that I don't miss it at all.

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