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Subject: Re: GOTO considered necessary (reworked)
Date: 1997/06/18
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> >We have only two methods of handling such spaghetti sequences in typical
> >PL's, the code+goto representation, or the loop-case representation.
> 
> I can think of others: E.g. an array of pointers-to-procedures, indexed
> by state.

Wouldn't that be a two-dimensional array indexed by current state and
transition trigger, with pointers-to-procedures and next state in each
cell?

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