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ZenPsycho
on Dec 22, 2011
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John Resig: JavaScript as a First Language
"Synchronous I/O Considered Harmful" or "I once considered teaching JavaScript as a first language, but then I found out it has no GOTO statements"
tantalor
on Dec 22, 2011
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It may not have GOTO statements, but JavaScript (ECMA-262 Ed. 3) does have its cousin, label-breaks,
foo: if (1) { break foo; console.log("nope"); } console.log("yep");
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Statem...
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