[Info-vax] Coding style in the VMS's

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 9/29/21 1:46 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2021-09-29, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>
>> No - it is emulating assigned goto as I don't think you can save a label
>> in a variable.
>>
> 
> Thanks Arne.
> 
> That code was so horrible I wasn't 100% sure what it was doing.

Stylistically, yes, it was horrible.  But I had no problem
understanding it.  But then, I have been doing production
Pascal for over 40 years.

> 
> It looks like it was written by the kind of person who probably
> wishes Hollerith constants were still a thing. :-)

I doubt anyone still wants Hollerith constants.  They were
needed once but those days are long gone.

bill