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		fhub on July 26, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Clay: A new language for generic programming (base... goto can be useful for "alarm exits". The linux kernel uses them a lot. See the bottom of this thread for some pseudo code http://kerneltrap.org/node/553/2131

adamc on July 26, 2010 [–]

Sure, but in the factorial example, Clay uses goto to express iteration: http://bitbucket.org/kssreeram/clay/src/b1df8340f2b4/test/fa...

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