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And COMMON statements. Or EQUIVALENCE statements. It took me years to figure out why you could not EQUIVALENCE items in a COMMON statement or two different COMMON statements. I kept on trying to get the lousy variables to do it. A lousy six characters and they thought they were god almighty. I may get my FORTRAN IV book out again and see if if works now.
I daresay you can in the 9th dimension as variables would have no difficulty occupying different memory areas while having the same address, I was really only referring to PCs in this dimension.
People who have problems with GOTO have no clue about code that is actually executed by the processor -- unconditional JMP is efficient instruction because it allows branch predictor to make correct guess. These days performance is about avoiding pipeline stalls (especially on P4), and GOTO is a good thing.
I rarely use it, and sometimes its the only choice if you have switch statement inside a loop and you need to get out of the actual loop, not just switch statement.
