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On Sun, 25 Feb 2018 12:58:03 -0600, JimP wrote:

> On 25 Feb 2018 06:10:18 GMT, Bob Eager <news...@eager.cx> wrote:
> 
>>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.
> 
> Then why do the same questions keep getting asked ?

Because there is no room for new ones!



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