On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:41:49 +0000, Ted MacNEIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>I think abuse of ITERATE and LEAVE to be a much milder crime. > >I don't know what you mean by abuse, but when I studied modular/structured programming at the University of Waterloo, these were considered valid constructs. >... I absolutely agree. Even when absolutes aren't appropriate. I may have misunderstood Paul, but I assume he was describing such convoluted logic that use of SIGNAL might have actually made more understandable code. I was trying to say the even then I would consider use of ITERATE and LEAVE preferable to SIGNAL. In fact, I'm not sure that I would ever use SIGNAL to break out of a complex nested loop structure even if it DID greatly simplify the logic. In fact, I don't even like named LEAVE; I leave each level seperately. (And that is probably even more pig-headed than religiously avoiding SIGNAL.) Pat O'Keefe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
