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to: Daniel Doran
from: Bill Hemenway
date: 1995-01-23 04:55:24
subject: GOTO

DD> BILL HEMENWAY wrote something original about GOTO


BH> Is there something like labels and goto in rexx?

 DD> REXX does have labels, and has something like 'GOTO'.  It also has
 DD> 'IF-THEN-ELSE', 'DO WHILE', 'DO UNTIL', 'DO var=start TO end BY step'
 DD> and a few other useful constructs.

 DD> Okay, so if you want to use a 'goto' (I'll admit they are occasionally
 DD> the easiest way to do things), try the following code illustrating the
 DD> goto-like 'signal' instruction:

A few people beat you to it. But thanks anyway, I got things working
like I wanted.

Bill


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