MB> This is all true.  DosKillThread() sounds like something that should
 MB> be in the INTERCAL language, which augments "goto" with the much
 MB> worse "comefrom" and the utterly amazing
"ReturnFromOtherFunction()."

 AC> This is going to sound like such a stupid question -- 
 AC> is there an OS/2 implementation of INTERCAL?

I hope not.  Maybe there is a Windows version.

 AC> I've *always* wanted to try it.

No, you really don't.

 AC> I mean, it has such great 
 AC> possibilites; you could spawn new threads by having 
 AC> several comefroms from the same label, for example.

I suspect this would lead to a race condition every time it was invoked.

 AC> I hadn't come across ReturnFromOtherFunction() though, 
 AC> how does that work? Pass the return value of a 
 AC> different function?

I don't know.  I assume it works about like DosKillThread().

-- Mike


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