Re: Additional RPGLE Enhancement Requests

Paul and Mark,

In a message dated 97-07-13 19:54:59 EDT, you write:

> 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*

RRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrr!  How about just structuring your logic so that it FALLS to
the ENDSR?  Why should subroutines be any different from mainline logic?  A
LEAVESR command would be USELESS if the code were structured properly in the
first place.  I've found places for using both ITER and LEAVE, especially
when converting S/36 code.  I HAVE YET to find a place in my heart for a GOTO
:-).

REPENT!

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-Mail:  DAsmussen@AOL.COM

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