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@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ In his 1968 letter, [<i>A case against the GO TO statement</i>](https://www.cs.u
(known only by that name), Dijkstra said “[t]he go to statement as it stands is just too primitive, it is too much an invitation to make a mess of one’s program.”
Unfortunately, scheme programmers aren’t given that invitation.
That’s no fair!
Fortunately, scheme has a procedure, `call/cc`, that we can use to emulate the control flow that `GOTO` provides.
Fortunately, scheme has a procedure, `call/cc`, that we can use to emulate the style of control flow that `GOTO` provides.
We can use syntactic abstraction to invite scheme programmers to make a mess of their programs in a limited context.
## How `GOTO` works