Re: Something Wrong with the following Code ?

[Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dennis Lovelady wrote:
> That is the way I understood it for years!  Something must have changed
> recently.  (By "recently," I mean within the last twenty or so.)  The code
> compiles (to my similar surprise) on V5R3.

I thought GOTO from a subroutine to detail calcs had always been 
supported for all RPG versions, but I just tried the older compilers and 
I found out that it's not supported for RPG II (RPG36).  It is supported 
for RPG IV and RPG III (both RPG38 and RPG).  I have no idea why anyone 
thought it was a good idea to support branching like that.

But even RPG36 supports branching into a structured group like an IF or 
a DO.  Somehow that seems even worse than branching from a subroutine 
into detail calc.