James Gosling创建了支持goto语句的原始JVM，但后来他删除了这个不必要的特性。没有必要使用goto的主要原因是，通常可以用可读性更好的语句(如break/continue)或将一段代码提取到方法中来代替它。

来源:James Gosling，问答环节

禁止声明同名变量。

如。 Int I = 0, goto;

它们被保留以供将来使用(请参阅:Java语言关键字)

关键字const和goto是保留的，即使它们目前没有被使用。

Java中没有goto语句的原因可以在“Java语言环境”中找到:

Java has no goto statement. Studies illustrated that goto is (mis)used more often than not simply "because it's there". Eliminating goto led to a simplification of the language--there are no rules about the effects of a goto into the middle of a for statement, for example. Studies on approximately 100,000 lines of C code determined that roughly 90 percent of the goto statements were used purely to obtain the effect of breaking out of nested loops. As mentioned above, multi-level break and continue remove most of the need for goto statements.

如何在Java中使用"continue"标签的例子是:

public class Label {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        int temp = 0;
        out: // label
        for (int i = 0; i < 3; ++i) {
            System.out.println("I am here");
            for (int j = 0; j < 20; ++j) {
                if(temp==0) {
                    System.out.println("j: " + j);
                    if (j == 1) {
                        temp = j;
                        continue out; // goto label "out"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        System.out.println("temp = " + temp);
    }
}

结果:

I am here // i=0
j: 0
j: 1
I am here // i=1
I am here // i=2
temp = 1

当然，它是关键字，但它不在源代码级别上使用。

但如果使用jasmin或其他转换为字节码的低级语言，那么“goto”就在那里

它被认为是不能做的事情之一，但可能被列为保留词，以避免开发人员感到困惑。