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Lawrence Kirby <fred@genesis.demon.co.uk> wrote:
[snip]
>It would be quite reasonable to specify the grammar to limit this type
>of label only to compound statements.

Ugh. Special cases are the bane of useability.

>In fact one of the possibilities
>is simply to define a compound statement label which has scope limited
>to within the compound statement labelled.

You're getting close to situation indicators, which I would prefer if
I were defining a new language. I think labeled loops are a hack--I
would want something both more general and unified, not optional
clauses to sundry existing constructs.

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