In <[email protected]>, on 04/23/2012
at 11:27 AM, Gord Tomlin <[email protected]> said:
>Some languages allow the provision of a label for a block, and a
>LEAVE statement that takes a label as an argument. In such
>languages this construct performs the same function as your GOTO,
>but in a way that can be better understood by the optimizer.
I'm not sure that there is a difference in code optimization, but the
code will be more maintamable if you use leave and next in those
languages that support them, rather than equivalent goto statements.
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ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
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