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Joe Darcy announced yesterday a late-breaking language change for JDK8 - the inclusion of a goto statement. He cited "increased expressiveness" and "more compact code" as inherent motivations behind the change.
I thought this was pretty funny for an April's fool joke. If you were switched on yesterday you hopefully spotted the April 1st creation date - although if you're living in a different time zone you might be forgiven for a bit of head scratching at the start!
Other clues were the change being reviewed by Duke and endorsed by Edsger Dijkstra (Dijkstra was particularly scornful of the GOTO statement). If you're a sci-fi fan you might have also noticed the change is funded by the Firefly's evil Blue Sun Corporation.
If you did fall for it then GOTO jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect $200...
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