Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!us.feeder.erje.net!news.snarked.org!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED!nerds-end From: George Neuner Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: Is multi-level function return possible? Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 02:44:16 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 14 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <14-03-031@comp.compilers> References: <14-03-020@comp.compilers> <14-03-022@comp.compilers> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.iecc.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: miucha.iecc.com 1394818634 22754 2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970 (14 Mar 2014 17:37:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@iecc.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 17:37:14 +0000 (UTC) Keywords: code, Pascal Posted-Date: 14 Mar 2014 13:37:14 EDT X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:1153 On Tue, 11 Mar 2014 13:04:57 GMT, anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) wrote: >... in Pascal you can goto a label that is in a containing procedure >or function, even across several levels. That is a very rarely used >feature of the language, and Wirth removed it (along with goto) from >his later languages. Interesting. I was not aware of this, and it is not mentioned in any of several Pascal books I have from the early 80's. Other than Wirth's own, I wonder how many implementations actually allowed it? George