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4 Alpha. In this book, the destination of a cross-reference—like the target of a goto statement in a programming language, or the sign to which the musician ascends in a D.S. al fine2 —whence again down the page flows the river of words. 2 Certain programming languages, for example C++, include a jump statement of the form “goto label” in which the next statement executed is the one identified by the word label. This means a complete transfer of control to that statement, and programmers sometimes frown upon goto as conducive to code that is hard to read and keep clean. Dal segno al fine is also a jump statement . In sheet music it instructs the musician to navigate to the measure marked by the segno, a specific sign, and play to the fine, or end. ...

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