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Re: Nasty language semantics (Was: error message I don understand) [message #174932 is a reply to message #174921] Mon, 18 July 2011 15:57 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Peter H. Coffin is currently offline  Peter H. Coffin
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On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 09:22:58 +0100, Tim Streater wrote:
> I haven't used a goto since 1978 when I gave up writing FORTRAN. Oh
> wait, tell a lie, there was a period when I had to, since I was obliged
> to write in Pascal and there was no return statement. So I faked one by
> labelling the end of the function with 999: and then doing goto 999.

Something of Pyrrhic victory, some might say...

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7. When I've captured my adversary and he says, "Look, before you kill
me, will you at least tell me what this is all about?" I'll say,
"No." and shoot him. On second thought I'll shoot him then say "No."
--Peter Anspach's list of things to do as an Evil Overlord
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