Re: Additional RPGLE Enhancement Requests

I also agree.  DOUxx & DOWxx require you to work from compiled listings,
whereas GOTO and TAG can be searched in SEU.  At the machine interface
level, DOWxx, DOWxx and GOTO, TAG are exactly the same thing.  Why not make
the program easier to work with in SEU.  One slip of an DOUxx, END and you
have search through 800 lines of code to search through and DEBUG.

Also, the H spec should allow a keyword that disallows END which would
require ENDxx only.

Steven Easton 
seaston@ionet.net
Midrange Systems Design
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> From: boothm@earth.goddard.edu
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Additional RPGLE Enhancement Requests
> Date: Monday, July 14, 1997 9:04 AM
> 
> Sorry Dean, but I am having a great emotional battle over this.  I know
> that GOTOs have become the antiChrist, but I have seen too many DOWxx and
> DOUxx with their associated "END" hundreds of lines away.  The chances of
> figuring out exactly what the programmer was trying to do has long since
> disappeared.
> 
> I won't vent my feelings toward a program who's first C line is " *INKC  
    
> DOUEQ*ON "  with it's "ENDDO"  800 lines or more later, followed by "
MOVE
> *ON      *INLR ".  But I will say that strikes me as convoluted and
> muddifying.  Is "muddifying" a word? Anyway, "to make muddy, unclear,
> layered in obfuscation" would be the meaning.
> 
> Bad logic and bad division of the job into its pieces is poor programming
> whether the programmer used GOTOs or DO_xxs, imho.
> 
> In <970713215828_1446995665@emout07.mail.aol.com>, on 07/13/97 
>    at 09:58 PM, DAsmussen@aol.com said:
> 
> #  I HAVE YET to find a place in my heart for a GOTO
> #:-).

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