[TUHS] origin of string.h and ctype.h

[scj@yaccman.com (Steve Johnson)]

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A little Googling shows that the IF I mentioned was called the
"arithmetic IF".   There was also a Computed GOTO that branched to
one of N labels depending on the value of the expression.   And an
Assigned GOTO whose main use, as I remember, was to allow for error
recovery when a subroutine failed...

Steve 

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From: "Dave Horsfall" <dave@horsfall.org>
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Subject:Re: [TUHS] origin of string.h and ctype.h

 On Sat, 12 Aug 2017, Steve Johnson wrote:

 > Don't have much to add except to note that early FORTRANs had a
version 
 > of IF that took three statement numbers and did a (gasp) GOTO to
the 
 > first if the expression in the IF was negative, to the second if it
was 
 > 0, and to the third if it was positive.   And some mainframes had
an 
 > instruction that did exactly that as well...

 Wasn't that the computed GOTO?

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