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  • Subject: Re: Is this the Free-Format that we asked for?
  • From: Jim Langston <jimlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 08:50:14 -0800
  • Organization: Pacer International

Richard,

You *will* be able to code a goto in RPG V.

C            Goto       There

That was not taken away from you at all.  You can still do that.  You just
can not do it in freeformat.  It wasn't taken away, it just wasn't *added*

Regards,

Jim Langston

Richard Jackson wrote:
> 
> Jon, we disagree about goto but I am torn between the issues.
> 
> If I cannot code a GOTO or BRANCH command in version 5 of a language when
> the other 4 versions supported GOTO then something has been removed.
> 
> I think that there are good defensible uses of GOTO.
> 
> I think that political-correct-ness is good defense.
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