RE: More on RPG style

["Dennis Lovelady" <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> My university professors would have rejected my code because the LEAVE
> is considered nothing but a GOTO.
> Instead they would have INSISTED on the Select statement because that
> is structured programming technique.

Oh, now that's funny!  A leave is a GOTO (I agree, by the way - especially
after the compile) - BUT an ENDDO or an ENDFOR is ... what exactly?  In
fact, an ELSE is what, exactly, after the compiler is done with it?  It's
rich to see a learned group reject something on the basis that it's just
like so many things that they accept!

LEAVE, by the way, (originally, "break" in C) *is* a part of the structured
programming style, just like else and all the others.  And, yes, they all
generate GOTO under the covers.  The difference is in the way we can read
them, and how they improve our logical understanding, and how we can
organize the 'thoughts.'

Dennis Lovelady
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