RE: Cycle Processing vs. Doing it my way

[Troy.C.Dills@xxxxxxxx]

Amen
I always use Do loops to avoid using a goto.  I've always been taught that
goto's were bad.
(In school we got an automatic F for a project that used a "goto") although
there are times
where I wished I could use them, I force myself not to.  I know we all have
programming
standards,  I prefer using a "Do"  and on a specified condition you can
LEAVE the Do
and continue processing. Ex.

                                    Do
                                    Read            Custmast
                                    If                     NOT % FOUND
                                    LEAVE
                                    Endif

                           continue processing

                                   EndDo

Looks much cleaner than using a goto, make it a lot easier to maintain
also.
Your not having to look for tags and Gotos everywhere. (I have seen and
used both) and yes I think gotos create spaghetti code, it will have you
mind
wrapped around in circles trying to find out how the cycle works.
This is Just my 2 cents.


Thanks
Troy Dills
Julius Blum Inc.





                    Mike.Collins@syan
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vs. Doing it my way
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                    12/06/2001 09:13
                    AM
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And what is wrong with LEAVE? It hardly creates spaghetti code as the
program flow is always in the one direction. I like to refer to a LEAVE as
a structured GOTO!!!!!

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