Re: GOTO - I still love you!!! -- RPG400-L

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Hi Reeve -

That's the attitude that makes the offshore gang swoon in anticipation:
using nested DOU *IN03 on a complex, multi-format, interactive program only
because GOTO's are "bad" murders our productivity just for the sake of
sticking to a principle; economics, in the end, is pragmatism.  So let's
play the hand we're dealt: we have a great language and let's use the full
range of its functionality; plus, it's wonderful that ILE RPG just fits on
those 80-column cards I'm still using.

It's not GOTOs that are the problem, it's TAGs.

I use lots of GOTOs in interactive programs, but I have a very limited number of TAGs.

Though I still use GOTOs and TAGs, I also use BIFs where possible (many of my new batch programs have *INLR as the only indicator, and that just because it is required to terminate the program), service programs, activation groups, etc.

We don't have a written set of standards in this shop, and not much in the line of unwritten standards (except no new development in RPG III), so I'm free to use what works best.

-- Ken http://www.ke9nr.net/ Opinions expressed are my own and do not necessarily represent the views of my employer or anyone in their right mind.

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