Re: Is multi-level function return possible?

Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com>
Fri, 14 Mar 2014 21:36:59 +0000 (UTC)

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From: Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 21:36:59 +0000 (UTC)
Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server
References: 14-03-020 14-03-022 14-03-031
Keywords: Pascal, history
Posted-Date: 14 Mar 2014 18:01:01 EDT

On 2014-03-14, George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Mar 2014 13:04:57 GMT, anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) wrote:
>
>>... in Pascal you can goto a label that is in a containing procedure
>>or function, even across several levels. That is a very rarely used
>>feature of the language, and Wirth removed it (along with goto) from
>>his later languages.
>
> Interesting. I was not aware of this, and it is not mentioned in any
> of several Pascal books I have from the early 80's.


Maybe it was considered the "underwear" of the implementations,
hence one of the "unmentionables".

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