From: Stu <stu@...>
Date: 2013-02-20T13:08:02+09:00
Subject: Re: so, what's the proper way to replace funcionality of GOTO ?

callcc is one way to do a functional programming style goto statement

http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-2.0/Continuation.html

Though it's obvious that goto is considered a taboo at the current
state of the art. There are always another way to deal with
conditional to executed code. goto statements became obsoleted by
simply calling a function which could almost be viewed as a bookmark.
This removed the code from the data which goto relied on line number
for procedural representation over function verb.

None the less I enjoyed creating infinite loops on my apple ][e as a
child. Also recall the ? would expand to PRINT which I believe is now
simply a easter egg of modern visual basic.

]LIST

10 PRINT "HELLO, WORLD!"
20 GOTO 10

OP your going to love ruby. It really brings back the old "joy of
programming" we had 20 years ago =).

~Stu