Re: Why was GOTO removed from /free? -- RPG400-L

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Subject: Re: Why was GOTO removed from /free?
From: Wayne McAlpine <wayne.mcalpine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:33:28 -0500
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I believe iter and leave were added to replace goto, so the developers did give something back.

john e wrote:

Without giving something back...?

For clean error handling "goto" is often the best choice in a classic language (yes RPG is still classic, like C).

What problem has been solved now by just removing goto from RPG as we don't have exception handling in RPG as we have in C++ or Java?

http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2009/04/27/using-goto-for-error-handling-in-c/

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RE: Why was GOTO removed from /free? , Tom Deskevich
RE: Why was GOTO removed from /free? , Tom Deskevich

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