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Re: Proposed keyword to transfer control to another function

From Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
Subject Re: Proposed keyword to transfer control to another function
Date 2015-07-19 12:05 -0400
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On Sun, 19 Jul 2015 11:32:35 +1200, Gregory Ewing
<greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> declaimed the following:

>
>Another possibility is "chain", which I've seen in some
>contexts for an sh exec-like operation.

	Think I've only seen CHAIN used in some BASICs to load another program
overtop the running one. Used it on my college data structures course --
assignment was a hashed-head multiple-linked list, and we were told we
could implement it in "any language <the instructor> understood" (he never
made that mistake again: he got BASIC, FORTRAN-IV, COBOL, and Sigma-6
assembly; only APL and SNOBOL weren't accepted). The BASIC only allowed for
4 open files in a program, and it was easier to invoke separate programs
for the phases of the assignment (a phone-book, hashed on names).

	I've only seen one other application using HHMLL -- and that was the
Amiga file system.
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Proposed keyword to transfer control to another function Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-17 09:46 +1000
  Re: Proposed keyword to transfer control to another function Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-07-17 20:16 -0700
  Re: Proposed keyword to transfer control to another function Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2015-07-19 11:32 +1200
    Re: Proposed keyword to transfer control to another function Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-19 10:21 +1000
    Re: Proposed keyword to transfer control to another function Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-07-19 12:05 -0400
    Re: Proposed keyword to transfer control to another function Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-20 02:13 +1000
    Re: Proposed keyword to transfer control to another function MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2015-07-19 17:24 +0100
    Re: Proposed keyword to transfer control to another function Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-20 02:32 +1000
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    Re: Proposed keyword to transfer control to another function Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2015-07-21 19:33 +0200
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