Re: monmsg question

Hi:

I don't see any reason for a GOTO after a MONMSG when there is no branch in the 
program logic regardless of the outcome of the command. That kind of coding 
just adds unnecessary bytes to the source and cycles to the execution (even if 
only about three of those).

BTW this is being composed on a BlackBerry. Nw I knw why kids tx each othr.

Darrell




----- Original Message -----
From: Simon Coulter [shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 11/17/2006 04:34 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: monmsg question




On 17/11/2006, at 6:28 PM, Wayne McAlpine wrote:

A program-level MONMSG command can't be used as a way to ignore errors.

Of course it can. Plenty of lazy coders use this to ensure normal 
completion.

  It must be accompanied by a GOTO command to take some specific 
action.

There is no system requirement for this. It is indeed how any competent 
developer would use it but I've seen plenty of quick & dirty CL that 
has a global MONMSG CPF0000 with no corresponding GOTO.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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