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From: Gene Wirchenko
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2018 04:28

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On 24 Feb 2018 16:23:13 GMT, Bob Eager <news...@eager.cx> wrote:

>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

     What?  Won't it output
          at L1
          Hello
repeated until interrupted?

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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