Re: Bash RFE: Goto (especially for jumping while debugging)

[Bob Proulx]

Richard Neill wrote:
> Dear All,

In the future please start a new message for a new thread of
discussion.  When you reply to old messages from three months ago
those of us who actually keep months worth of email see the message
threaded with the previous discussion about variables and subshells.
If anyone has killed that thread then the continuation is also killed.

> Here's a rather controversial request, namely that bash should support 
> 'goto'.

Although goto does have uses it is definitely a keyword of the
damned.

>         cat >/dev/null <<'label_foo'         ...     LABEL
> This has exactly the same effect.

I actually was going to reply and suggest exactly the above.  But then
realized you had already suggested it.

Normally I would do a commented out section.  Easy and non-controversial.
Or I would do if false; then...fi
For just a comment section this doesn't seem to be a compelling need.
For that you would need to show how writing state-machines or
something is so much easier or some such...

Since there are other possibilities I would vote to maintain the
status quo.

Bob