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| From | Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.compilers |
| Subject | Re: Is multi-level function return possible? |
| Date | 2014-03-14 16:55 -0700 |
| Organization | Compilers Central |
| Message-ID | <14-03-039@comp.compilers> (permalink) |
| References | <14-03-020@comp.compilers> <14-03-022@comp.compilers> <14-03-031@comp.compilers> |
George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> writes: > 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? I don't know about Pascal implementations, but GCC supports nested functions as an extension to C, and supports doing a goto to a label defined in an enclosing function. There is an example in the docs at http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.8.2/gcc/Nested-Functions.html . Ian
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Re: Is multi-level function return possible? Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-03-11 05:20 +0000
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Re: Is multi-level function return possible? Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@aol.com> - 2014-03-15 13:34 +0100
Re: Is multi-level function return possible? Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com> - 2014-03-14 16:55 -0700
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Re: catch and throw, was Is multi-level function return possible? Ivan Godard <ivan@ootbcomp.com> - 2014-03-28 18:24 -0700
Re: catch and throw, was Is multi-level function return possible? Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-03-29 02:47 +0000
Re: catch and throw, was Is multi-level function return possible? Ivan Godard <ivan@ootbcomp.com> - 2014-03-28 21:32 -0700
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Re: catch and throw, was Is multi-level function return possible? Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-03-29 02:07 +0000
Re: catch and throw, was Is multi-level function return possible? Alan Bawden <alan@scooby-doo.csail.mit.edu> - 2014-03-29 02:44 -0400
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