Re: Additional RPGLE Enhancement Requests

  <<snip, snip >>

>The point of this discussion was to suggest possible ways to use
structured code; to avoid the GOTO.  I understand that
>the *current* language definition requires me to have matched BEGSR
ENDSR pairs.  I'm suggesting a change to that >specification.

>Other folks in the discussion were suggesting a new opcode to "leave
a subroutine early."   I just thought that we already
>have a "leave subroutine" (ENDSR) opcode; why not simply reuse it for
the case when we want to leave early?

I would assume that there appear to be no plans for "re-using" ENDSR
for the same reason that we don't reuse ENDDO ENDIF or ENDSL.

How do other languages handle problems like this?

Tim Lennon.
Analyst Programmer, Thomas Miller & Co.
Lennontc@mutual.co.uk
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