The New C Standard (Excerpted material) An Economic and Cultural Commentary

jump statement syntax jump-statement: goto identifier; continue; break; return expressionopt; Commentary These are all jump statements in the sense they cause the flow of control to jump to another statement (in the case of the goto statement this could be itself). Other Languages Most imperative languages contain some form of goto statement, even those intended for applications involving safety-critical situations. Snobol 4 does not have an explicit jump statement. All statements may be followed by the name of a label, which is jumped to (it can be conditional on the success or failure of the statement) on completion of execution of the statement. The come from statement is described by Clark.[5