On Fri, 15 Mar 2024 19:36:12 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >The SIGNAL statement unwinds the stack in a very disruptive fashion; its >behavior is unlike GOTO in any language that I am familiar with. Use it for >anything but exception handling at your peril. > >"unwinds" in a very disruptive and partial fashion. I once debugged a naive >co-workers program which handled an exception in a subroutine by SIGNAL to top of main loop. Worked fine in a modest test data set. Overflowed CALL/RETURN stack on a larger data set.
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