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From: "Phlip" <new_email@see.web.page>
Subject: Re: Software landmines (was: Why C++ is successful)
Date: 1998/08/20
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Jeffrey C. Dege wrote in message ...

>On Fri, 21 Aug 1998 01:29:16 GMT, Larry Brasfield
<larry_br@sea_net.com> wrote:
>>
>>Is there any language in ordinary use that permits
>>a goto to cross a procedure boundary?  If so, how
>>are goto target name scopes defined?  If not, why
>>make so much of trying to avoid such goto's? <g>
>
>C's setjmp()/longjmp() functions provide for a goto() across procedure
>boundaries.  Or at least from a function to a function that called it.


We all know that's not what Ell thought he meant, if anything.

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