Re: Todays WTF -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: Todays WTF
From: Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 18:03:06 -0400
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Nathan Andelin wrote:

I may not be an advocate of GOTO, but what are ENDDO and ENDFOR if
not GOTO in disguise?

Hmm, if you stretch it, even assignment statements can be considered GOTO in disguise, since they have an implied "GOTO NEXT STATEMENT".

Without the controlled-branch operations like CALL, IF, ELSE, DOWHILE, FOR, ENDxx etc, a programming language would be pretty much useless. The most you can say about GOTO is that without GOTO, a programming language would be occasionally a tiny bit awkward.

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