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  • Subject: RE: Is this the Free-Format that we asked for?
  • From: Jon.Paris@xxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 19:07:47 -0500


 >> GOTOs can be pernicious but if you remove them from the language, you
have to do more work to use the new language spec.

Guys can we get real about this for a while?

Nobody - repeat nobody is taking ANYTHING (yes I am shouting) away.  They
have simply chosen not to support some of the more antiquated features of
the RPG language in the new free-form option.  Note the word OPTION.  The
existing RPG IV stays the way it is.  The new free-form variant is just
that an additional variant.

Frankly I think if you absolutely must use a GOTO (and I'd fire anyone who
did) then the fact that you have to drop out of free-form to do it is a
positive advantage since it makes it obvious to everybody that the ghastly
thing is there just waiting to jump on them in the future!

No argument that a GOTO can sometimes be the simplest fastest way of
handling something and if I was the only one who ever maintained my code
maybe I wouldn't mind so much.  Trouble is I'm not the one who maintains it
and once you allow its use who is to say that it can't be used elsewhere in
the program.  Me - I'm a simple soul - I figure banning it is way easier
than sorting out the mess its abuse causes.

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