rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) (06/06/84)
>>There's no way you can avoid GOTOs in COBOL, try as you might. > >I'm not sure I believe this. I would like to be convinced that >this is so. Whether one should or should not use GOTOs in COBOL >is, of course, an entirely different matter. Actually, it's quite possible to write a fair bit of COBOL without GOTOs. I did write a few thousand lines (which in COBOL isn't all that much) without any GOTOs just because I was too lazy to figure out the interaction between GOTO and PERFORM. (And all the COBOL, BASIC, and SNOBOL fans can say what they will; mixing procedure call/return with open code is a dumb idea!) -- Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303)444-5710 x3086 ...Never offend with style when you can offend with substance.