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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!darwin.sura.net!wupost!uwm.edu!ogicse!decwrl!contessa!mwm
  2. From: mwm@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us (Mike Meyer)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
  4. Subject: Re: PL/1 non-local goto versus setjmp/longjmp
  5. Message-ID: <mwm.1jk3@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us>
  6. Date: 15 Aug 92 21:39:50 GMT
  7. Article-I.D.: contessa.mwm.1jk3
  8. References: <55930@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1992Aug05.203238.141042@cs.cmu.edu> <1992Aug12.073130.1@zodiac.rutgers.edu> <id.VJBS.0DK@ferranti.com>
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  10. Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica
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  13.  
  14. In <id.VJBS.0DK@ferranti.com>, peter@ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) wrote:
  15. > Personally, I'd prefer if C had no goto at all, but an organized system of
  16. > contexts, so you could perform setjmp/longjmp operations within a routine.
  17.  
  18. I'm not quite sure what you mean by "organized system of contexts"? If
  19. this mechanism would allows multilevel loop breaks. If not, I'd like
  20. more details on it.
  21.  
  22.     <mike
  23.