Structured design, goto's, and the holy grail

[Daniel R. Levy]

In article <607 at cresswell.quintus.UUCP>, ok at quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>     In any programming language you have to use the tools you've got.
> C's modularity is better than Fortran's (two routines can share a
> variable without having to making available to the whole world), but
> that isn't saying much.

FORTRASH can achieve a similar effect by having the two routines concatenated,
one of them being an ENTRY, with the "shared data" local to the combined
routine, using SAVE to preserve it between calls.  This is ugly but it sure
works.
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