Using the goto function

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Hi,

Can goto be used with Basic?

Thanks

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No GOTO statement. AppStudio BASIC is based on Visual BASIC, which also does not have it.

Here is the paper which first identified GOTO as harmful, by Edgar Dijkstra in 1968:
https://homepages.cwi.nl/~storm/teaching/reader/Dijkstra68.pdf

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Visual Basic has a GOTO statement. I use it all the time.

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You’re right - I should have been more specific and said VBScript.

AppStudio works by translating BASIC to JavaScript. It’s a 1-1 translation in nearly all cases, so there is no performance hit. JavaScript does not have a GOTO statement.

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That makes more sense :slight_smile: Truth is you really shouldn’t use GOTO anyway, but I just find it to be a really nice time saver when writing code that doesn’t need to be well optimized.