Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!feeder.erje.net!us.feeder.erje.net!newspeer1.nac.net!border4.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED!nerds-end From: Kaz Kylheku Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: Is multi-level function return possible? Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 21:36:59 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 13 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <14-03-036@comp.compilers> References: <14-03-020@comp.compilers> <14-03-022@comp.compilers> <14-03-031@comp.compilers> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.iecc.com X-Trace: miucha.iecc.com 1394834461 76584 2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970 (14 Mar 2014 22:01:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@iecc.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 22:01:01 +0000 (UTC) Keywords: Pascal, history Posted-Date: 14 Mar 2014 18:01:01 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:1158 On 2014-03-14, George Neuner wrote: > 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. Maybe it was considered the "underwear" of the implementations, hence one of the "unmentionables".