Re: Who the bloody eff still codes CABEQ in this century?!?!?!? -- RPG400-L

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Subject: Re: Who the bloody eff still codes CABEQ in this century?!?!?!?
From: Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 15:51:17 -0400
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On 2017-07-24 12:46 PM, Dan wrote:

On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 4:19 PM, Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
... Speaking of the venerated GOTO, I found this in the RPG reference:
Use a GOTO operation to specify a branch:
- From a detail calculation line to another detail calculation line
- From a total calculation line to another total calculation line
- From a detail calculation line to a total calculation line
- From a subroutine to a TAG or ENDSR within the same subroutine
- From a subroutine to a detail calculation line or to a total

calculation line.

I stumbled upon that last one in some old code a few weeks ago and was
dumbfounded. I never knew we had that feature (sic) in RPG.

Branching from detail calcs to total calcs seems almost as awful. "Sic" indeed, heh.

I hereby concede that there are more situations than SQL WHENEVER where GOTOs are difficult, if not impossible, to convert to free-form.

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