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From: catone@scrolls.wharton.upenn.edu (Tony Catone)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Gotos are ok
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Date: 19 Feb 91 19:42:59 GMT
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In article <1991Jan28.112029.50@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> phys169@csc.canterbury.ac.nz writes:
>Somebody mentioned a
>version of Pascal (UCSD) that could do this. Maybe Borland may adopt it some
>.....
>My favourite is to require the NAME of the procedure or loop to be given with
>the exit

This is the mechanism UCSD pascal used.  And also Apple Pascal, which was
a modified version of UCSD Pascal.  UCSD Pascal used to be available on
MS-DOS machines, in native code mode, from Pecan Software, but my understanding
is that this is no longer the case.  I know this because I have recently
been working on a port of a program originally written in Apple Pascal that
makes much use of the exit() facility, primarily for error handling, as most
people expected.  Translating these into Turbo 6.0 is no fun.

- Tony
  catone@desci.wharton.upenn.edu