On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 12:13 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > On Thu, 13 Apr 2017 18:36:57 -0600, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> > declaimed the following: > >> >>Well, you can do it in Assembly. And BASIC, if you count the primitive >>GOSUB-type subroutines, though modern BASICs have real subroutines >>that don't allow it. >> > REXX probably allows it too... (No GOTO, but the SIGNAL statement can > do unconditional jumps to named labels)... Hmmm, if I read the manual > correctly, any use of SIGNAL will terminate loops, even if the SIGNAL and > target are both within the same loop.
This is correct. Annoyingly, it also wipes out indentation in the TRACE output, so you really want to use it *only* for error handling (which is its stated purpose). ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
