This term is part of our Unit 24: English for Programmers, Part I vocabulary list. Please note that pronunciations can vary slightly even in the same dialect.
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an instruction in older procedural programming languages that specifies that the instruction execution is to jump to a specified location, normally a line number
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"The professor said that using goto statements is considered bad practice with the possible exception of breaking out of nested loops."