RE: Why was GOTO removed from /free?

["Tom Deskevich" <thomas.l.deskevich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Wayne McAlpine
Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 1:33 PM
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Subject: Re: Why was GOTO removed from /free?


I believe iter and leave were added to replace goto, so the developers
did give something back.

john e wrote:
> Without giving something back...?
>
> For clean error handling "goto" is often the best choice in a classic
language (yes RPG is still classic, like C).
> What problem has been solved now by just removing goto from RPG as we
don't have exception handling in RPG as we have in C++ or Java?
>
http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2009/04/27/using-goto-for-error-handling-in-c/
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