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GUY_HENZA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I was taught structured programming in 1980 and I have never written a new
program with a GOTO, ITER or LEAVE. I consider them to be poor program
design.

Hmm. Sounds like you were taught by a fanatical disciple of Wirth.

There is nothing inherently bad about ITER or LEAVE, provided they are used in situations (e.g., brute-force table look-up) in which premature exit of a loop is the norm, and completion of the loop is the exception.


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