Gabriel Lebec
1 min readOct 17, 2017

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Agree, but cannot resist mentioning that JS actually does have control flow labels.

loop1: while (a < threshold1) {
a++
b = 0
loop2: while (b > threshold2) {
b--
if (a === b) break loop1
}
}

It’s as bad as (or worse than) any imperative code out there, and certainly not standard JS practice. You can only use labels with break or continue, so it’s not actually a GOTO. But it is very GOTO-like, especially in conjunction with continue.

Feel free to run screaming into the (purely functional) hills now.

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Gabriel Lebec

Instructor at Fullstack Academy of Code. Passionate about functional programming, nihontō (traditional Japanese arms), and anything that combines art and tech.