Ask HN: Do you use goto, or labeled break/continue?

C# 15 (in preview with .NET 11) lets break and continue target an outer loop by label:

outer: for (int x = 0; x < xMax; x++) {

 for (int y = 0; y < yMax; y++) { if (ShouldSkipRest(x, y)) continue outer; if (ShouldExitAll(x, y)) break outer; }

}

Honestly, "goto" never even comes to mind when I write an algorithm. I find it hard to follow, so when I need to leave nested loops I extract a method and "return" instead.

Do you use "goto" in real code? Do you think you'll use labeled break/continue?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/whats-new/csharp-15#labeled-break-and-continue

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