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go to

This statement explicitly transfers control to a statement with a specified label. The syntax is:

go to statement-label

where:

statement-label

An integer or symbol that labels some statement in the procedure.

`statement-label`	An integer or symbol that labels some statement in the procedure.

The go to statement specifies the label to which G2 transfers control. The specified label must appear in the procedure. If it does not, G2 signals an error. Specifying a label requires the following syntax:

statement-label: statement

For example:

new-proc (quant1: quantity, quant2: quantity) = (integer) 
x, y: integer; 
begin 
	if x > 4 
		then go to tag5 
	else 
		return 
	tag4: x = 8; 
	tag5: x = y; 
end

In this example, G2 transfers control of the procedure to tag5 if x is greater than 4, and returns otherwise. Note that G2 never executes the statement labeled tag4.

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