[TUHS] [multicians] History of C (with Multics reference)

[John Cowan]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 12:52 AM Bakul Shah <bakul at iitbombay.org> wrote:


> The goto operator is "-> label", while assignment is "var <- value"
>

I overstated the case.  However, goto is in fact "-> expression", where
expression is an integer scalar referring to a line (implicitly numbered
from 1 upwards) of the current definition; a goto to  a nonexistent line
such as 0 exits the current definition or program.  Labels were added
later, and are essentially local variables bound to the line number they
appear on.  Modern APL uses structured-programming constructs like all
other post-Ratfor languages.



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