Re: How to eliminate GOTO?

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From: Mark Ingram
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 13:48

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Zefram (A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk) wrote:
: Magao <magao@rabble.uow.edu.au> wrote:
: >   do search:
: >   {
: >   }
: >   while (...);

: Doesn't work.  That syntax is already legal.  It makes search a label
: for the (beginning of the) compound statement.

But isn't that exactly what we want?
"goto"s will work as they did before,
and "break <label>" will exit the (possibly compound) statement
that has that label?

-- Mark.

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Subject: Re: How to eliminate GOTO?
Date: 11 Sep 1995 13:48:12 GMT
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