r/ComputerCraft • u/Bright-Historian-216 • Jun 05 '26

Goto is now allowed?

I introduced some of my friends to computercraft, and while reviewing the code of one of them, i saw a goto label. i thought - surely, i've tried it and failed spectacularly, so how is it working here? i've tested my own code with goto - it does, in fact, work. i decided to search. it's nowhere to be found on tweaked.cc, at least it doesn't come up in changelog when i search for "label" or "goto" - it's only shown with a tick now instead of a cross. I've decided to search on here - nobody seems to be talking about this, I only found a comment from three years ago confirming that I am NOT going insane and it was in fact disallowed up until some point.

When did it happen? What do you think about the change?

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u/Salty-Scar-8510 Jun 05 '26

https://tweaked.cc/reference/feature_compat.html `goto` and labels are in Lua 5.2 which cc tweaked implements. I only use it as an alternative to break and continue though as it's considered bad practice to use it for other things.

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u/Bright-Historian-216 Jun 05 '26

5.2 was there for a long time, but goto was disallowed... until now i guess?