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framecowbird on Sept 21, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: A function decorator that rewrites the bytecode to...

But you can also do that with recursion

if failed: do_thing()

This is covered in the Julia docs, where they argue recursion is more readable than goto

https://sodocumentation.net/julia-lang/topic/5564/-goto-and-...

withinboredom on Sept 21, 2021 [–]

I guess that depends on if the language supports tail recursion and/or you're 100% sure it won't blow the stack. If you need to retry forever, without using any memory to do so, goto is perfect.

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