SIGNAL is NOT a GOTO! It unwinds any active control structures and executes at the last routine level. SIGNALing into a structure like trying to divide by zero. It doesn't make sense.
On Wed, Sep 4, 2024, 13:54 Mike Cowlishaw <m...@speleotrove.com> wrote: > > Do we intentionally allow SIGNAL/CALL into IF/DO/LOOP? > > > It is certainly not done intentionally. > > > Not quite true .. in various automatic or manual translations from BASIC > to REX it was done intentionally, as that made a translation simpler/truer > to the original. (I think SUMER game is an example of that.) > > But, I agree, better now to disallow this because it is now practical to > do this [because nowadays it's possible to pre-parse the whole program > before starting execution]. > > Mike > _______________________________________________ > Oorexx-devel mailing list > Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel >
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