The jump statement transfers the control to the line of code identified with the label.

Labels in Alvis are identifiers followed by a colon. A label must start with a lower case letter.

It is necessary to put at least one statement after a label. In other words, a label cannot be followed by a closing curly bracket.

The jump statement is a single-step statement.

The jump statement should be used carefully, e.g. you cannot jump from one procedure to another.

jump label;

Listing 1. Loop statement syntax

x = 10;
y = x;
abc:
  y = y - 1;
  x = x * y;
  jump abc;

Listing 2. Jump statement example

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