[Default] On 11 Jun 2020 16:17:47 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main rreyno...@cix.co.uk (Rupert Reynolds) wrote:
>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 :-) As someone who made extensive use ALTER x-exit TO y, GO TO x because of PERFORM code generation on DOS360 and small partitions, I guarantee you the construct preceded structured programming and was less than friendly to maintenance programmers. I rewrote more than one of my programs when partitions grew to be structured and eliminate ALTER statements. Clark Morris > >Rupert > >On Thu, Jun 11, 2020, 01:07 Tom Ross <tmr...@stlvm20.vnet.ibm.com> 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 lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
