Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >> More exactly: It's a workaround for C's lack of lack of GOTO.
> > 
> >   Except that C does have goto.

> Ooo, really?

> In that case, I have *no clue* why they did it this way...

  Because "while(1)" is a common idiom, and avoids the ugly goto.

> Oh, wait, maybe I do... Can you use GOTO to jump to a *pointer*? Or only 
> a literal label?

  Jumping to a pointer is normally called "function call".

  Goto works only with labels.

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