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Message-ID: <42F9C785.9090900@lancaster.ac.uk>
Date: 2005-08-10T09:23:17Z
From: Barry Rowlingson
Subject: R equivalent to Fortran, GAUSS, or Perl's "goto"
In-Reply-To: <000201c5a1a0$4378b2b0$1502ec84@NA08WLAMBOY>

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