We Are Sorry to Inform You (2005)

Re:We Are Sorry to Inform You (2005) by hyperman1 on Saturday June 18, 2022 @07:18AM (#31788837)

These BASIC goto statements are pretty tame. Some basic interpreters did not require the line number in the statement to be constant. You could do things like a switch:

  switch n{case 1: case 2: case 3:}

would become e.g.

  goto n*100+1000

with lines 1100,1200,1300 handling the cases.

And then there was the hidden advanced troubleshooting console:

  input N: GOTO N

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Re:We Are Sorry to Inform You (2005) by dan-robertson on Saturday June 18, 2022 @08:31AM (#31789255)

This is how you do a SWITCH statement in Microsoft’s command language (for .bat files) I think.

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Re:We Are Sorry to Inform You (2005) by 4cao on Saturday June 18, 2022 @10:02AM (#31789912)

It does come in handy in some scenarios:

    choice /c abc
    goto choice%errorlevel%

    :choice1
    :choice2
    :choice3

Or, for command-line parameters:

    set ops=a b c
    set op=%1
    for %%p in (%ops%) do if "%op%"=="%%p" goto %op%
    goto usage

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