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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-09-29, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

That wasn't Pascal Bill. :-) That was FORTRAN IV code using
Pascal syntax. :-)

Simon.

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