Re: Is multi-level function return possible?

George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net>
Fri, 14 Mar 2014 02:44:16 -0400

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From: George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 02:44:16 -0400
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
References: 14-03-020 14-03-022
Keywords: code, Pascal
Posted-Date: 14 Mar 2014 13:37:14 EDT

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. Other than
Wirth's own, I wonder how many implementations actually allowed it?


George


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