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From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb+usenet@becket.net>
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Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: [9fans] samuel (fwd)
Date: Thu,  7 Mar 2002 09:56:36 +0000
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ozan s yigit <oz@blue.cs.yorku.ca> writes:

> "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb+usenet@becket.net> writes:
> 
> > Lol.  GCC actually supports a close extension; you can store labels in
> > appropriately typed variables and then goto them.
> 
> yeah, that and some other extensions (eg. nested functions a la pascal)
> that have failed to make it to any other C compiler [or standard] in the
> last decade. we have great time scraping them off of any code we find
> them in, assuming we have to keep that code. :)

Ah well, such is the way of success, isn't it?