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Re: Situation indicators (long) (was: How to eliminate GOTO?)

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From: Zefram
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 17:14
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When used with a loop construct, the situation identifier is just a
break.  The (already suggested) syntax that would attach an optional
label to each loop, and allow break and continue to use that label,
would be more general (because continue works), and wouldn't complicate
the grammar nearly as much.  When used with an arbitrary statement, the
situation identifier merely acts as a goto to the end of the statement,
which I think is sufficiently rarely used that another syntax for it
would not be useful.

-zefram
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