A statement in many ProgrammingLanguages? which causes an unconditional branch to an arbitary point in the current function or method. In a host of early BASIC dialects, it was the only control structure available besides if statements.
Despite being maligned in general use, GoTo is still the best way to describe FiniteStateMachines such as parsers in these languages.
It's also used in C programming a lot to provide something resembling "exceptions", particularly "finally" clauses. You often see "goto out" and then out is a label just before the final return.
