Reply to post: Re: Those were the days

A 1970s magic trick: Take a card, any card, out of the deck and watch the IBM System/370 plunge into a death spiral

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Re: Those were the days

Exactly

You could have:

ASSIGN 1000 to LABEL

GOTO LABEL => will GOTO 1000

But then something worst was added:

A way to pass labels as parameter for a subroutine

(that is: a function w/o return value),

with a specific syntax inside subroutine to select a label from parameter list:

Caller jumps there right after the return !

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