Re: *INZSR - I still love you!!!

[Vasant Patel <vasant.patel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bravo Hans!

Hans Boldt wrote:

> Anton Gombkötö wrote:
>
> > ...
> > (And GOTO was forbidden (and i mean it! A guy wrote a program to check
> > the source codes for that and for ITER, LEAVE, ...!) long years ago...
> > ;-)
>
> Oh dear oh dear oh dear!
>
> Why oh why would you not want to use such nice opcodes as ITER and 
> LEAVE? These are perfectly valid ways to repeat or exit a loop, and 
> should not be tossed into the same bucket as GOTO. Lots of languages 
> have similiar constructs: C, Java, Python and Ruby have "break" and 
> "continue", Perl has "last" and "next" (just to name a few other 
> commonly used languages). Heck, even many implementation of Pascal, 
> that paragon of structured programming virtue, have "break" (or 
> "exit") and "continue"!
>
> I think the only people who object to ITER and LEAVE in RPG are those 
> who try too hard to follow the "rules" of structured programming. 
> Structured programming is fine, but it still shouldn't be allowed to 
> get in the way of readable programs. (Just my humble opinion.)
>
> Cheers! Hans
>
>
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