RE: ILE RPG:Is the use of ITER & LEAVE Structured Programming?

[boothm@xxxxxxx]

In <199804250440.AAA000.96@unicorn.flybynight.com.au>, on 04/24/98 
   at 11:32 PM, "Simon Coulter" <shc@flybynight.com.au> said:

LEAVESR is explicit and unambiguos.  It is different than a GOTO because
there is no doubt as to what is happening. There are places that I'd
normally feel that a GOTO could be used, including leaving a subroutine
but with LEAVESR being available then that is one less excuse to justify a
GOTO.  The IF tests are nice, no question about it, but putting an END
seventy five  or more lines away from it's IF is no big winner either, in
my mind.


>As for Toronto even considering a LEAVESR operation code regardless of
>the small effort required to satisfy  the request ... words fail me! 
>This 'op-code' can adequately be replaced by a GOTO and a label on the
>ENDSR  statement if you must use it.  It is not even necessary, it can
>ALWAYS be replaced by an appropriate IF test.  

>Whether you disagree is of
>no interest to me whatsoever.  None of the arguments in favour of these 
>operation codes has been persuavive, merely misguided.


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