Re: RE: Why is LEAVE bad? (was: Cycle Processing vs. Doing it my way)

["Mike Naughton" <mnaughton@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

rpg400-l@midrange.com writes:
>To write 10,000 lines of code to avoid a goto/leave/iter/leavsr verses
>putting a leave in place to pop out of a loop, go to the top of a loop,
>or leaving a subroutine is a little pointless.

I agree -- I think  "go to"s have their place, and while it's true that
it's easy to write spaghetti code with them it's also pretty easy not to
(you just have to think about what you're doing and plan ahead a little --
oh, wait a minute, maybe that's not so easy! ;-)
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>Oh and so everyone knows, I'm 35, and in the industry since I'm 23 (12
>years!) (since it's reveal how old you are and how long your in the
>industry week on RPG-L)

Ok, I'm 52 and have been programming for 22 years (9 on AS/400, 3
seriously). Before that I drove a truck -- the way I see it, I'm still
figuring out the best way to move things around. . . . (and I've never had
to crawl under a computer in the cold rain to fix anything :-)
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