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From: JimP
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2018 18:58

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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 ?

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