Re: Multi-level break and elimination of GOTO

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From: Greg Comeau
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 23:13

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In article <487u4k$2eo@sargas.omicron.se> elias@omicron.se (Elias Martenson) writes:
>rich@kastle.com (Richard Krehbiel) writes:
>
>>Lawrence Kirby <fred@genesis.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>It does.  Unfortunately it's ambiguous.  Remember, the braces are not
>>required.
>
>>do
>>    thing;
>>while (i == 0);
>
>>"thing" could be a label and the loop body a null statement, or
>>"thing;" could be the loop body statement.
>
>What about the $ sign? It's never used?

Although that's an extension character with some compilers,
wouldn't that be a problem for some non-ASCII keyboard?

- Greg
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Subject: Re: Multi-level break and elimination of GOTO
Date: 22 Nov 1995 18:13:31 -0500
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