On 17 Feb 2013 14:01:41 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:

>On Sunday 17 February 2013 12:47:16 Thomas Berg wrote:
>> Some suggestions:
>>
>> * GO TO's from in the middle of one SECTION into the middle of another. 
>> And then GO TO back again depending on a "switch"... * Programs with nested
>> PERFORMS (*only* PERFORMS!) in maybe 7 levels ending in a CALL of another
>> module. * Field name (variable) in (e g) MOVE statement qualified resulting
>> in more than 100 characters, then add the matching length for the
>> corresponding field. (Take this times 1000 fields...)
>> * Processing the same data sometimes in a character defined field,
>> sometimes in numeric defined fields (several different numeric formats for
>> the same data) without any reasonable explanation. * Need to check four or
>> five different result fields (depending on the situation etc.) for eventual
>> error from the CALL of another module.
>>
>> And other I have forgotten...
>>
>               :
>       PARAGRAPH-1.
>               GO TO PARAGRAPH-3.
>
>       PARAGRAPH-2.
>               ALTER PARAGRAPH-1 TO PROCEED TO PARAGRAPH-4.
>
>       PARAGRAPH-3.
>               ALTER PARAGRAPH-1 TO PROCEED TO PARAGRAPH-2.
>
>       PARAGRAPH-4.
>               :
>
>(I really hate the ALTER command.)

And it is deprecated if not removed in the current standards.

Clark Morris
>
>Leslie
>
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