I lost faith COBOL and finallly became a PL/1 biggot when I was told that ALTER GOTO was introduced to help support structured programmng :-)
Rupert On Thu, Jun 11, 2020, 01:07 Tom Ross <[email protected]> wrote: > >The addition of EXIT PARAGRAPH > >and EXIT SECTION have eliminated most of the reasons for use of GO TO > >in COBOL. I would be interested in any corrections to my > >understanding by those responsible for the COBOL compiler. =20 > > I partially agree, Clark, but what really made it easy to get rid of GOTOs > in COBOL (if you wanted to) was EXIT PERFORM and especially EXIT PERFORM > CYCLE! > These were added to the Standard with COBOL 2014 and implemented by IBM in > Enterprise > COBOL for z/OS V5.2 > > Cheers, > TomR >> COBOL is the Language of the Future! << > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
