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So isn't using leave with a cmdlbl just a 'GOTO'?


Paul Therrien
Andeco Software, LLC
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Subject: Re: Leave outside of DO group???

On 24 Jul 2013 18:38, Luis Rodriguez wrote:
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 3:23 AM, whatt sson wrote:
On 23 Jul 2013 14:09, Scott Schollenberger wrote:
LEAVE command

The Leave (LEAVE) command can be used to exit an active DOWHILE,
DOUNTIL, or DOFOR group. It provides a structured manner to leave
an active group without resorting to the use of the Goto (GOTO)
command.
LEAVE is not valid with simple Do (DO) command groups.

In RPG it is.

A Leave (LEAVE) command without a label will leave the innermost
active DO group.

Specifying a label allows the processing to break out of one or
more enclosing groups.

Wish we had that in RPG so that GOTO is not missed (be me anyway).
Shouldn't be too much to implement in the RPG compiler?


Huh?

Maybe I didn't understand your post well (Spanish is my native
language, so sometimes I make mistakes) but, THERE is a LEAVE opcode
in RPG, as well as ITER, LEAVESR, etc...


<<SNIP>>


The comment was specific to the CL ability to name a LABEL to /leave/ the
current nesting level, to a specific outer nesting level; i.e. the "that"
referred to the ability of CL to "break out of one or more enclosing
groups."

A review of the LEAVE opcode syntax for RPG will show that there is no
support to name a label:
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v7r1m0/topic/rzasd/sc092508959.htm
#zzleave

A review of the LEAVE command-statement for CL will show that there is
support for a label; the CMDLBL parameter:
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v7r1m0/topic/cl/leave.htm

With the reinsertion of the since-removed contextual details from the
prior discussion thread [with corrected indenting\usenet-quoting], hopefully
a reread of the above quoted messages helps clarify the response about the
comparison between what RPG and CL can do; i.e. what is lamented as missing
from RPG as compared with what is allowed within a CLP. The LEAVE of each
language is contrasted with the emphasized text [delimited by asterisks] in
the two bullets below:

- The LEAVE command-statement of the CL allows specifying a label to
enable /leaving/ *more than one* nesting level.

- The LEAVE opcode of the RPG, within a nesting level, the "LEAVE causes
control to transfer 'outwards' by *one level* only." The complete quote
from the manual suggests "In nested loops, LEAVE causes control to transfer
'outwards' by one level only", but it may intend to imply nested Do-groups
vs _loops_ because the LEAVE can be used in a non-iterative DO\ENDDO
according to the same poster; i.e. the earlier comment "In RPG it is
[allowed to LEAVE a non-iterative Do-group]".

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