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From: Bob Eager
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2018 06:10

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On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 20:28:34 -0800, Gene Wirchenko wrote:

> 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

Well. yes/ But Usenet is not infinite.



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