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|    John Reagan to All    |
|    Re: Fun trick    |
|    13 Jan 25 21:08:11    |
      From: johnrreagan@earthlink.net              On 1/8/2025 4:38 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:       > On 1/8/2025 3:42 PM, John Reagan wrote:       >> And the compiler also supports the Extended Pascal TO BEGIN DO and TO       >> END DO statements. TO BEGIN DO is just the same as [INITIALIZE] but       >> allows any statement. TO END DO is an exit handler (registered with       >> an initialization routine).       >       > The compiler tell me that those two are only valid in modules       > not in programs.       >       > They are probably most useful for modules, but why not allow       > them for programs?       >       > Arne       >       Good question. Extended Pascal says only MODULEs so we just didn't       think about allowing them in PROGRAMs even though we allow [INITIALIZE].              --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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