GOTO statement

[MurMeeKeer]

I've seen in programming languages like Visual Basic, there is a command.... GoTo label:

Then, the control will be shifted to the label referred and will start executing from that position.

I wonder why Actionscript doesn't have this feature?

Ex: (like this)

[abrahamyan_com]

As far as I know there is no such future.
But using goto is always bad habit in programing language.
There is always way to avoid using of it.

Can you be more specific why u need to use goto ??

[rayden_chan]

In actionscript:
that would be either:
gotoAndPlay("label");
or u may use
gotoAndStop("label");

[RaGlitter]

you could absolutely goto a frame.

Also you can do what you want by writing another function, rather than a labeled point in the code.

[MurMeeKeer]

Thank you all for the nice responses. I think RaGlitter's idea is OK.

abrahamyan.com:

In some cases, I felt the difficulty of not having this feature.

But, absolutely........we have alternatives.

[abrahamyan_com]

gotoAndPlay() controls timeline, your question was about jumping inside function scope i guess.
they are different things.

[MurMeeKeer]

Yes, you are right. I am asking about jumping from one line to another line within a code and not in the timeline.

[willrose]

Yes, I agree a goto is never really needed. There are always better ways to go about it.

In your sample code, a simple if-else would work just fine. Inside your if-else, you could also call other functions as well if you find the code inside is long and reusable.

[MurMeeKeer]

Of course.......we can achieve this with an else block. I think because of this only they might have not given importance to the label.

[Newsgroup_User]

MurMeeKeer wrote:
> I've seen in programming languages like Visual Basic, there is a command....
> GoTo label:
>
> Then, the control will be shifted to the label referred and will start
> executing from that position.
>
> I wonder why Actionscript doesn't have this feature?
>
> Ex: (like this)
>
>
>
>
>
> function greater(a,b){
> if(a>b){
> goto lbl;
> }
> trace(b+" is greater than "+a)
> return b
> lbl:
> trace(a+" is greater than "+b)
> return a
> }
>
The bytecode that the Action Script is compiled into does support goto.

[Newsgroup_User]

Actionscript is based on ECMA. There is no GoTo statement in the standard.

http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-262.htm