Re: Lobbying

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On 4 Sep 2000, at 8:18, Michael Nelson wrote:

> Rob,
>
> I'd be in favor of subscriting/slicing of expressions.  As for the infamous
> goto, I can't go along with that, but perhaps you would consider a labeled
> exit statement and  a labeled continue statement as in Java?  This would
> meet 90% of the cases where a programmmer might want a goto.  If this is
> still out of the question, how about just a contiue statement--it would skip
> the rest of the loop like exit, but go back to the start of the loop rather
> than exiting.

I don't know java, but a continue sounds like a forwards goto, and i'll be glad
to accept
any goto i can get. Since a forwards reference for a goto is harder on the
single-pass
compiler/interpreter, since it can't know *where* the target is till it reads
that far in the
code, if the forwards goto is done, the backwards goto would be even easier to
do.

Kat

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