>>>   Except that C does have goto.
> 
>> Ooo, really?
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>> In that case, I have *no clue* why they did it this way...
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>   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?
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>   Jumping to a pointer is normally called "function call".
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>   Goto works only with labels.

Yes, but jumping to a function pushes a return address onto the stack. 
And they specifically don't want to do that. (Because it would use an 
unbounded amount of stack.)

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