By W. W. Peterson, T. Kasami, N. Tokura
Communications of the ACM,
August 1973,
Vol. 16 No. 8, Pages 503-512
10.1145/355609.362337
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A well-formed program is defined as a program in which loops and if statements are properly nested and can be entered only at their beginning. A corresponding definition is given for a well-formed flowchart. It is shown that a program is well formed if and only if it can be written with if, repeat, and multi-level exit statements for sequence control. It is also shown that if, while, and repeat statements with single-level exit do not suffice. It is also shown that any flowchart can be converted to a well-formed flowchart by node splitting. Practical implications are discussed.
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