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Subject: (lbl: .... :lbl)
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I try to do a labelled statement 

(lbl: 

:lbl)

for some simple looping, but can't get the compiler to swallow it ...
I get around it like this

lbl:(# DO ... #);

Is this normal or a bug?

Thanks,
Atle