Goto

Goto (goto, GOTO, GO TO or other case combinations, depending on the programming language) is a statement found in many computer programming languages. It performs a one-way transfer of control to another line of code; in contrast a function call normally returns control. The jumped-to locations are usually identified using labels, though some languages use line numbers. At the machine code level, a goto is a form of branch or jump statement. Many languages support the goto statement, and many do not (see language support).

The structured program theorem proved that the goto statement is not necessary to write programs; some combination of the three programming constructs of sequence, selection/choice, and repetition/iteration are sufficient for any computation that can be performed by a Turing machine, with the caveat that code duplication and additional variables may need to be introduced. At machine code level, goto is used to implement the structured programming constructs.

In the past there was considerable debate in academia and industry on the merits of the use of goto statements. Use of goto was formerly common, but since the advent of structured programming in the 1960s and 1970s its use has declined significantly. The primary criticism is that code that uses goto statements is harder to understand than alternative constructions. Goto remains in use in certain common usage patterns, but alternatives are generally used if available. Debates over its (more limited) uses continue in academia and software industry circles.

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Goto (disambiguation)

goto is a statement found in many computer programming languages.

Goto may also refer to:

Goto (name), a Japanese surname, including a list of people with the name

GoTo (telescopes), a type of telescope mount and related software

GoTo.com, later Overture Services, Inc., a pay-for-placement Internet search service acquired by Yahoo!

Goto-gumi, a Japanese yakuza organization

Goto, a kind of Philippine rice congee

In places:

Gotō, Nagasaki, a city in Japan

Gotō Islands, Japanese islands in the East China Sea

In fictional characters:

Goto Dengo, a character in Neal Stephenson's 1999 novel Cryptonomicon

G0-T0, a droid in the video game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II – The Sith Lords

Goto (name)

Gotō (後藤, 五藤, 五島) is a Japanese surname. People with the name include:

Aritomo Gotō, an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II

Ben Goto, a documentarist and novelist

Cassern S. Goto, an author

Gotō Chūgai, an essayist, novelist and literary critic

Fumio Gotō, a politician and theoretician

Fusanosuke Gotō, a soldier

Hiromi Goto, a novelist

Hirooki Goto, a professional wrestler

Hiroyuki Goto, a game designer and noted PI reciter

John Goto, an artist known for his photoshopped montage color photography

Joseph Goto (1920-1994), an American sculptor

Jūrō Gotō, a major general in the Japanese Imperial Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War

Kazushige Goto, a computer research associate noted for hand-optimized assembly routines

Keiichirō Gotō, a photographer

Kenji Goto, a freelance journalist

Mai Gotō (actress), an actress and gravure idol

Mai Goto (voice actress), a voice actress

Maki Goto, a singer in Hello!Project

Masafumi Gotō, a member of the Japanese rock band Asian Kung Fu Generation

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Hint

Hint and similar may refer to:

Font hinting, a process for optimizing the rasterization of vectors

Hint (musician), musician Jonathan James, from Sussex, UK.

Hint (SQL), a feature of the SQL computer language

Hint Water, a beverage company from San Francisco, California

Hints, Staffordshire, a village in Staffordshire, England

Motorola Hint QA30, a mobile phone introduced by Motorola

Uppercase

Hardware Information Navigational Tool

Hierarchical INTegration, a computer benchmark

Nord-Trøndelag University College (Norwegian: Høgskolen i Nord-Trøndelag)

Health Information National Trends Survey

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Hint (musician)

Hint is musician Jonathan James, hailing from Sussex in the UK. His music has been released on independent record labels and his catalogue includes work which has found favour amongst DJs and fans from various underground music scenes.

Early career

Hint's first releases were on the Deep Water label - an imprint based in Leicester in the UK. Shortly after the first promos of his debut EP Beau Selector were circulated amongst DJs, Hint was invited to record a Peel Session at the BBC's Maida Vale Studios, which was broadcast in May 2002.

Hint subsequently signed to Bristol-based label Hombre Recordings and began work on his debut album 'Portakabin Fever. The album was so called because it was written and recorded in a mobile home by James using an Akai MPC, guitar, bass and keyboards. The songs were then mixed with engineer 7-Stu-7 at State of Art - the Bristol-based studio owned by Geoff Barrow of Portishead. Once the album was complete, including cover art and a comic booklet by graphic artist Will Barras, it was released worldwide on 22 April 2003 by Hombre Recordings in association with another, larger independent record label - Ninja Tune.

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Hint (SQL)

In various SQL implementations, a hint is an addition to the SQL standard that instructs the database engine on how to execute the query. For example, a hint may tell the engine to use or not to use an index (even if the query optimizer would decide otherwise).

Implementation

Different database engines use different approaches in implementing hints.

MySQL uses its own extension to the SQL standard, where a table name may be followed by USE INDEX, FORCE INDEX or IGNORE INDEX keywords.

Oracle implements hints by using specially-crafted comments in the query that begin with a + symbol, thus not affecting SQL compatibility.

Postgres Plus® Advanced Server (a proprietary version of PostgreSQL from EnterpriseDB) offers hints compatible with those of Oracle.

References

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Goto

Goto (disambiguation)

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Goto (name)

Hint

Uppercase

Hint (musician)

Early career

Hint (SQL)

Implementation

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