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From: ozan s yigit <oz@blue.cs.yorku.ca>
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Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: [9fans] samuel (fwd)
Date: Wed,  6 Mar 2002 15:56:53 +0000
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"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. :)

oz