XPost: comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc   
   From: hambar@Spamlock.microtech.com.au   
      
   "robert"  wrote   
      
   > I found only the terrible "goto" in the docs. Is this all Pascal   
   > has?   
      
   It all depends on the flavour of Pascal.   
      
   "break", "continue" and "exit" were introduced in Turbo Pascal 7.   
      
   They were not in TP6 but are in Delphi.   
      
   I don't know what "next" does.   
      
   But you can still do what you want to do in earlier Pascals by   
   rearranging your code.   
      
   begin   
        repeat   
          dosomething1; // eg inc(i);   
          if not cond1 then  // if cond1 then skip to nest item   
            dosomething2;   
          until cond2 or cond3;   
        if not cond3 then // if cond3 then "return early"   
          dosomething3;   
   end;   
      
   BTW infinite loops such as   
   > while True do   
   are usually shunned by most Pascal programmers as is the   
   'terrible "goto"'.   
      
   > How to jump to an absolute memory address?  jmp 0xFFFF:0xFFF0 ??   
      
   Why would you want to do this?   
      
   I can get to any memory address that I need to by looking in a named   
   variable.   
      
   Check out the @ operator.   
      
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