On Sat, 2012-04-21 at 16:40 -0400, Edward Jaffe wrote:
> The behavior of well-defined coding structures like IF/THEN/ELSE, DO, SELECT,
> CASE, etc. are extremely well understood--both by programmers and by code
> optimizers no matter which language is being employed.
Hmm. I wonder if the COBOL compiler generates equivalent code for:
GO TO ... DEPENDING ON X
(which I've always understood was a simple branch table) and:
EVALUATE X
WHEN 1 ...
WHEN 2 ...
Hey John, there's a research topic for you in your copious spare time!
--
David Andrews
A. Duda & Sons, Inc.
david.andr...@duda.com
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