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jlp looks like a great idea, of course this reminds me of the COME FROM statement described in the April 1, 1984 issue of CACM. "A linguistic contribution to G
by paulsutter 10y ago
jlp looks like a great idea, of course this reminds me of the COME FROM statement described in the April 1, 1984 issue of CACM.
"A linguistic contribution to GOTO-less programming"
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=358043 http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=358043
"The earliest known description of the COME FROM statement in the computing literature is in R. L. Clark, "A Linguistic contribution to GOTO-less programming," Commun. ACM 27 (1984), pp. 349-350, part of the famous April Fools issue of CACM. The subsequent rush by language designers to include the statement in their languages was underwhelming, one might even say nonexistent."