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A friend of mine in the 90s had the following email signature that it took me forever to get:

&gt; A goto a day keeps the D******a away.

And yes, <http://pic.plover.com/knuth-GOTO.pdf|http://pic.plover.com/knuth-GOTO.pdf> is a great response to the D******a.

I’m writing a parser in Clojure this morning, and I can tell you that I’m not enjoying the absence of a GOTO-like mechanism (`tagbody` in Common Lisp, for example) while building the state machine.

<@U013ZLJARC7> are you aware of <https://git.sr.ht/~hiredman/tagbody> ?

<@U05BRNRAC4V> Sadly, it abuses the exception mechanism to produce a slow and buggy version of that feature. I think the only good way to add `tagbody` in Clojure would involve voodoo to produce custom Java byte code.