OK, first of all, I am not a programmer. (yes, I heard the “thank god”) Perhaps I could make the top example simpler.

But anyway, I kind of like goto too much. I find it more intuitive to just jump around and re-use parts rather than think about how to do loops without too much nesting.

In high school, we only did Python. I really wanted to do goto in Python as well, but all I found was this April fools’ goto module.

Now in college we’re starting with C, and I am starting with Bad HabitsTM.

Anyway, tagging every line was BASICally just for the joke, but it is useful to just jump to any random line.

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    21 days ago

    I think they’re relative line numbers (a setting in vim). So they count down to where the cursor is currently at. (and would count upward form there)

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          I haven’t yet mastered Vim, but say I want to delete a block of text, then I immediately see the relative line number up to which I want to delete lines + 1 (because current line is basically zero).

          Say I have:

           3 a
           2 b
           1 c
          4  d
           1 e
           2 f
           3 g
          

          And I want do delete d,e and f, I do 3dd. With more lines, I don’t have to count.