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This reminds me of the "come from" statement. COMEFROM is a long-running joke, it's a flow control statement which is intentionally confusing. It works like a GOTO but backwards. There is no indication in the area being jumped from that flow control is about to go somewhere else in the program. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/COMEFROM

I think, when parts of your currency start to resemble any part of INTERCAL, you have a big problem :-)



People joke about the COMEFROM statement all the time, but isn't this was observers do?


What, you don't read your code in reverse chronological order?!




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