Re: Additional RPGLE Enhancement Requests

[boothm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

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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