[TUHS] origin of string.h and ctype.h
Steve Johnson
scj at yaccman.com
Sun Aug 13 15:27:09 AEST 2017
A little Googling shows that the IF I mentioned was called the
"arithmetic IF". There was also a Computed GOTO that branched to
one of N labels depending on the value of the expression. And an
Assigned GOTO whose main use, as I remember, was to allow for error
recovery when a subroutine failed...
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Horsfall" <dave at horsfall.org>
To:"The Eunuchs Hysterical Society" <tuhs at tuhs.org>
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Sent:Sun, 13 Aug 2017 14:26:53 +1000 (EST)
Subject:Re: [TUHS] origin of string.h and ctype.h
On Sat, 12 Aug 2017, Steve Johnson wrote:
> Don't have much to add except to note that early FORTRANs had a
version
> of IF that took three statement numbers and did a (gasp) GOTO to
the
> first if the expression in the IF was negative, to the second if it
was
> 0, and to the third if it was positive. And some mainframes had
an
> instruction that did exactly that as well...
Wasn't that the computed GOTO?
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
suffer."
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