The example extcab3.hoc does not work because the membrane mechanism called extracellular does not know about xcaxial (axial extracellular capacitance) at this time. break, continue, return statements should not appear inside a statement of the form
{....} since the section stack will not be popped. At this time such statements have to complete normally. If you quit the graphics X window, the next plot command will cause NEURON to exit without saving edit buffers.