Yes. The author of the linked comment in fact complains that goto-less programming has led to the gratuitous overuse of subroutines.  In the absence of modern optimizing compilers this was very inefficient.<p>Imagine the authors horror had he witnessed the use of properties in modern object oriented languages!  Of course, properties are almost always trivial for an optimizing compiler, or a JITC, to inline, and inlining is the mother of all optimizations.