I was looking through an error message that MATLAB gave me when I saw the command opentoline. After opening its help doc:
opentoline Open to specified line in function file in Editor.
Doesn't this serve the same purpose as goto as it can take you to the specific line number of any program?
opentoline will open the file in Matlab's editor. That's handy if a routine indicates a problem in a specific file/line. Then it can jump (or offer a link) to this location and the user sees the file/line.
goto is only for execution, it jumps to the position on execution and will continue executing from the goto target. The editor is not involved in this case. BTW, there is no built-in goto statement in Matlab, but functions called goto from third parties. I wouldn't use them anyway.