Re: How to eliminate GOTO?

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From: Paul Long
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 17:53

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halasz@caip.rutgers.edu wrote:
>If break were alloud to break out of both loops, it would be a most useful
>bit of sugar indeed.  For the problem with "goto" is its structure-breaking;
>the use of "break" assures that control gos to the end of a syntactic
>construct: the end of enclozind loop (or *sigh* "switch", but therefore a
>from-deeper ending "break" is even more needed).

FWIW, PL/I uses the keyword, leave. At some point in its evolution, a number
was allowed to follow the keyword that specifies the number of loops to leave,
e.g., leave 2.

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Paul Long                               45:29:14N 122:48:09W
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