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C shell - Rethought and reimplementation on functions

Hello. Recently, I've added a new feature to the C shell. This feature is for one-line control structure parsing. Now, after this work, I've reimplemented functions. I disliked the work on functions based on pipes. Now, because one-line control structures are a feature, I based functions on aliases. Should we have goto as one-line? What's your take?

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