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  • Subject: RE: ILE RPG:Is the use of ITER & LEAVE Structured Programming?
  • From: "York, Albert" <albert.york@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 10:12:48 -0700

I agree whole-heartedly with this. I can't count the number of times I
have been lost in 'structured' code because of the mixture of ELSE and
END statements. The LEAVESR tells me I am done with the subroutine and
there's no need to look at anything else. 

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>From:  boothm@ibm.net[SMTP:boothm@ibm.net]
>Sent:  Friday, April 24, 1998 8:58 AM
>To:    MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>Subject:       RE: ILE RPG:Is the use of ITER & LEAVE Structured Programming?
>
>In <199804250440.AAA000.96@unicorn.flybynight.com.au>, on 04/24/98 
>   at 11:32 PM, "Simon Coulter" <shc@flybynight.com.au> said:
>
>LEAVESR is explicit and unambiguos.  It is different than a GOTO because
>there is no doubt as to what is happening. There are places that I'd
>normally feel that a GOTO could be used, including leaving a subroutine
>but with LEAVESR being available then that is one less excuse to justify a
>GOTO.  The IF tests are nice, no question about it, but putting an END
>seventy five  or more lines away from it's IF is no big winner either, in
>my mind.
>
>
>>As for Toronto even considering a LEAVESR operation code regardless of
>>the small effort required to satisfy  the request ... words fail me! 
>>This 'op-code' can adequately be replaced by a GOTO and a label on the
>>ENDSR  statement if you must use it.  It is not even necessary, it can
>>ALWAYS be replaced by an appropriate IF test.  
>
>>Whether you disagree is of
>>no interest to me whatsoever.  None of the arguments in favour of these 
>>operation codes has been persuavive, merely misguided.
>
>
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