Excerpted from message dated 01-14-95, Bill Hemenway to All:

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

    There are labels.  Used primarily as targets for CALL statements.
There is no GOTO.  There is a SIGNAL, that looks and smells like a GOTO
but has _horrible_ side effects (knocks down internal structures) if
used improperly.

    For a full explanation of why there is no real GOTO (REXX is a
"dynamically scoped" language) see Mike Cowlishaw's "The
REXX Language:
A Practical Approach to Programming", 2nd edition [ISBN 0-13-780651-5].
This book (by the founding father of REXX) is the definitive description
of the "standard" version of the language, including the reasons why
things are the way they are.  OS/2 REXX is a superset of standard REXX,
but the philosophy hasn't changed.

          --Murray
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