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From: Paul Winalski <paul.winalski@gmail.com>
To: Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org>
Cc: srb@acm.org, tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: GOTO etc
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2023 17:10:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABH=_VRzV=vV=XHo1Q49fD22zAkegF4D_q9jXmrThwgTo=QRuA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8D38925D-428C-4346-876A-9689BD41F375@iitbombay.org>

On 3/12/23, Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org> wrote:
> Perhaps you’re talking about non-local GOTOs in Algol68, where you can jump
> from a nested procedure to a label in a lexically enclosing procedure.
> Pascal has this too.

So does PL/I.

-Paul W.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-12 21:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-12 18:23 [TUHS] " Steve
2023-03-12 20:06 ` [TUHS] " Bakul Shah
2023-03-12 21:10   ` Paul Winalski [this message]
2023-03-16 20:35     ` Steve Bourne
2023-03-19 16:53 Bakul Shah

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