[image] New scope solution question what language construct @goto and @label is I could probably ask in future in another topic. :wink: Goto does what’s written on the label :wink: Sorry for the pun. A label labels a position in your code (so it does nothing). Sorry for off-topic! (if someb…

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Afaik, goto is a primitive. It is simply a decision of surface syntax that you use it as a macro instead of keyword. If you look at code_typed(...; optimize=false) and code_lowered you will see it all over the place. As far as I understood, Stefan’s solution disregards the abstract syntax tree (the …

Are you able to write @goto and @label expanded? julia> function f() i = 1 eval(:($(Expr(:symboliclabel, :A)))) # (1) i += 1 if i<10 eval(:($(Expr(:symbolicgoto, :A)))) # (2) end end julia> f() ERROR…

julia> @eval begin function f() i = 1 $(Expr(:symboliclabel, :A)) i += 1 if i<10 println(i) $(Expr(:symbolicgoto, :A)) end end end f (generic function with 3 methods) julia> f() 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9…

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StefanKarpinski October 26, 2018, 12:09pm 2

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