I'll bite. IMHO *nothing* that I can imagine justifies using SIGNAL as a 
pseudo-call/return GOTO.

I would "modularize" initialization that cannot (for the reasons discussed here 
recently) go into a subroutine by surrounding the instructions with 
"eyecatcher" comments.

Charles

On Thu, 14 Mar 2024 20:43:31 -0400, Phil Smith III <li...@akphs.com> wrote:

>For me, this prompts discussion over "Is using SIGNAL worse than not 
>modularizing the initialization?":
>
>/**/
>stuff
>signal DoInit
>DoneInit:
>.
>
>DoInit:
>numeric digits 40
>.
>signal DoneInit
>
>-----------
>
>Discuss :)

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