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Restrictions on Pascal's Gotos

• A statement group is either a compound statement or the body of a repeat-until

• The target of a goto cannot be a statement in a statement group that is not active

• Means the target can never be in a statement group that is at the same level or is nested more deeply than the one with the goto

• An important remaining problem: the target can be in any enclosing subprogram scope, as long as the statement is not in a statement group

• This means that a goto can terminate any number of subprograms