I blew the parenthesis around the conditional expression also.  Hence the
*old* comment.
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On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 15:34:03 -0500,
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> I prefer the FORTRAN66 construct
>
> IF <condition> <label1> <label2> <label3>

My memory is that those labels were separated by commas.

>
> where it jumps to label1 if <condition> is negative, label2 if zero, and
> label3 if positive.  No else ifs about it.
>
> I hope you realize I'm as kidding as I am obviously too old.

As long as you are dredging up old Fortran; in my opinion computed
gotos were harder to follow than the ones based on the sign of an
expression.

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