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Subject: Re: go to statment in matlab
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:35:08 +0000 (UTC)
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> I've been programming for 30 years. I think the last time 
that
> I needed a GOTO construct was about 18 years ago, 
cleaning up
> some Fortran code that had been under development by 
random students
> for 20 years.

I know this is old, but I'm eagerly looking forwards to the 
addition of GOTO to MatLab.  

One simple reason:  It's fast.  Really fast.  I work with 
people who do real-time data collection using MatLab and 
need to iterate through loops in the range of milliseconds 
or less.  GOTO's can really help when you need to pare your 
code down to nothing!