Erik Meijer said:
> Not many other imperative languages have statements as first class citizens.
I don't have the details here (e.g., an Algol 68 report), but Michael Scott
reports in his "Programming Language Pragmatics" text (p. 279) that:
"Algol 68 [allows], in essence, indexing into an array of statements,
but the syntax is rather cumbersome."
This is in reference to historical variations on switch-like statements (and
consistent with a running theme, typical in PL texts, about the extremes of
orthogonality found in Algol 68).
-- Fritz Ruehr
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