Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!news.misty.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED!nerds-end From: Hans-Peter Diettrich Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: Is multi-level function return possible? Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 13:34:30 +0100 Organization: Compilers Central Lines: 7 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <14-03-040@comp.compilers> References: <14-03-020@comp.compilers> <14-03-022@comp.compilers> <14-03-031@comp.compilers> <14-03-037@comp.compilers> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.iecc.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: miucha.iecc.com 1394892375 20466 2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970 (15 Mar 2014 14:06:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@iecc.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 14:06:15 +0000 (UTC) Keywords: Pascal, history, comment Posted-Date: 15 Mar 2014 10:06:15 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:1162 > [I thought the numeric labels were to look like Fortran. -John] IMO it's a LL(1) thing. Statements cannot start with a number, so it must be a label. DoDi [It's as good (or bad) a reason as any. -John]