Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site asgb.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!wjh12!genrad!decvax!decwrl!amd!fortune!hpda!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!bmcg!asgb!mike From: mike@asgb.UUCP Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: &label one more time Message-ID: <554@asgb.UUCP> Date: Wed, 17-Oct-84 09:58:58 EDT Article-I.D.: asgb.554 Posted: Wed Oct 17 09:58:58 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 20-Oct-84 08:02:30 EDT Organization: Burroughs Corporation, Boulder Colo. Lines: 11 <> On the use of '&label'. FORTRASH has a similar operator, ASSIGN. I can speak from experience that using ASSIGN can lead to some of the most unreadable code ever created. I would hate to see this introduced into our (relatively) clean language. Mike Rosenlof Burroughs Advanced Systems Group ...hplabs!sdcrdcf!bmcg!asgb!mike