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From: Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de>
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Subject: Re: ALTER, ASSIGN and labels-as-values (was: Unicode in strings)
Date: Sun, 26 May 2024 20:49:17 -0000 (UTC)
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John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> schrieb:
> According to Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>:

>>People love to point out that the assigned GOTO has been removed from
>>Fortran, as a damnation of the concept.  But it just tells us that
>>Fortran programmers don't program the kind of code where this feature
>>is useful. 
>
> It still has computed goto which does the same thing without needing
> label variables:
>
>       GO TO (10, 42, 30), N
>
> which says if N is 1 goto 10, if 2 goto 42, if 3 goto 30, otherwise
> continue.

This has been marked as obsolescent since at least Fortran 95.
Fortran has had SELECT CASE for quite a few decades now, which
is similar to C's switch statement, except that it it much nicer
(ranges, strings, ...).  Can't do Duff's Device with it, though.