Re: Additional RPGLE Enhancement Requests

At 12:53 AM 7/13/97, Mark Lazarus wrote:
>Charlie,
>
> Good suggestion list.  I'm sure we can all come up w/ a few additions to
>make our professional lives a bit more pleasant.
>
> One major addition (mentioned several times here before) is the ability to
>rename fields in an output only file.
>
>>13.  We have ITER and LEAVE to exit a do loop.  How do we exit a
>>     subroutine without doing a GOTO.  What above an operation code
>>     to GOTO *ENDSR just like ITER does a GOTO ENDO and LEAVE does
>>     a GOTO ENDO+1.  I have no idea what to call the op code.  I
>>     just know we desparately need it.  (This should be trivial -
>>     please fix it.)
>
> How about LEAVESR ?


Why not just put a TAG on the ENDSR and GOTO it?  Does the same thing, and,
if you call it something like LEAVE/EXIT/QUIT it's fairly obvious what it's
doing.

All this just to avoid the use of a GOTO....  *sigh*


--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com


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