RE: Max. program size (and goto)

Or the new 'GOTO' statement:
'A'   CABEQ  'A'     END
I've seen this BS in some packages.






JFritz@sharperimage.com on 03/22/99 01:08:20 PM
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Subject:        RE: Max. program size (and goto)

In the best of all possible worlds, the chain of ENDIFs below would result
from a series of comparisons that really did depend on one another and all
needed to be executed. Otherwise there's usually a way to avoid them without
using a GOTO.  If you're maintaining someone else's code, it's usually too
much risk/trouble to simplify the logic, though.  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Slaugh [mailto:ken.slaugh@cm-inc.com]
> Sent: Sunday, March 21, 1999 1:43 PM
> To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
> Subject: RE: Max. program size
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> 
> That depends on what you think 'bad programming technique' is. I would
> rather see a GOTO END statement then:
> ENDIF
> ENDIF
> ENDIF
> ENDIF
> ENDDO
> 
> 
> Ken Slaugh
> Senior Programmer/System Analyst
> AS/400 Professional Network Administrator/MSE
> Specialist - Client Access/400
> Chouinard & Myhre, Inc.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:       Balaji Venkataraman/commsoft 
> [SMTP:bvenkata@commsoft.net]
> > Sent:       Friday, March 19, 1999 11:30 AM
> > To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> > Subject:    Re: Max. program size
> > 
> > GOTO will not affect the pgm size a great deal.  It is just a bad 
> > programming technique.
> > 
> > Balaji
> > bvenkata@commsoft.net
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > "Rajeev Asthana" <Rajeev_Asthana@paramount.com> on 03/19/99 01:14:24
> > PM
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> > How come GOTO is going to affect program size?
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