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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: No Go To's Forever!
Date: 2000/03/24
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In article <yecu2hwgakn.fsf@king.cts.com>,
Keith Thompson <kst@cts.com> wrote:
> "Marin D. Condic" <mcondic-nospam@quadruscorp.com> writes:
> [...]
> > Or more importantly, how does one do the equivalent of an "alter"
> > :-)
>
> If you want Intercal, you know where to find it. 8-)}
>
> For those not familiar with it, Intercal does not have a goto
> statement. It has a "come from" statement.


The "come from" statement is actually a lot more powerful than the goto
statement though. For instance, multiple "come from"s for the same line
is one way to implement a multi-threaded algorithm.

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