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From: Bob Eager
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2018 16:23

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On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 16:11:00 +0000, Walter Bushell wrote:

> Bob Eager <news...@eager.cx> wrote:
> 
>>Python? Try assembly language - or, if you are old enough to remember
>>BCPL, that's a language where you can store the address of some code in
>>a label and GOTO somewhere completely different...
> 
> Ach! Even Fortan will let you store a jump to a arbitray location, by
> storing data past the limits of an array an into program code.

That is, however, implementation. This example is how the language is 
defined!

This:

 L1: writes("at L1*n")

     L2 := L1

     writes("Hello*n")

     goto L2

     ...

L2:  writes("at L2*n")

will output:

at L1
Hello
at L1


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