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From: ggs@ulysses.UUCP (Griff Smith)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Gosub
Message-ID: <1201@ulysses.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Mar-86 22:03:52 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  7 22:03:52 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 8-Mar-86 22:44:43 EST
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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> /*
> > In basic there is a GOSUB routine that will push the current
> >  position onto the stack and jump to another line.  Then, upon
> >  hitting a return will return to that place.  I wish to write
> >  something like that in C that will be movable between compilers.
> > 
> > [[Example Deleted] Deleted]
> 
> To answer a somewhat different question, while I am opposed to this
> construct in C (because it messes with the stack, making things 
> difficult), I would very much like to see this in shell command files.
> Here, there is no stack, and variables would be global to the command 
> file. I feel that the overhead of opening another file and the
> difficulty of passing back results (`cmd args` is limited) justifies it.
> What say ye? 
> 
> 	jim		cottrell@nbs
> */
Sorry jim, we're ahead of you.  It's called "function", and it's in
both the System V shell and the Korn shell.  You probably missed it
because you were looking for it under "funx" in the manual pages.
-- 

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