[Default] On 10 Jun 2020 17:14:25 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main tmr...@stlvm20.vnet.ibm.com (Tom Ross) wrote:
>>The addition of EXIT PARAGRAPH >>and EXIT SECTION have eliminated most of the reasons for use of GO TO >>in COBOL. I would be interested in any corrections to my >>understanding by those responsible for the COBOL compiler. =20 > >I partially agree, Clark, but what really made it easy to get rid of GOTOs >in COBOL (if you wanted to) was EXIT PERFORM and especially EXIT PERFORM CYCLE! >These were added to the Standard with COBOL 2014 and implemented by IBM in >Enterprise >COBOL for z/OS V5.2 I agree but the main question I was raising is whether if I have GO TO blow-up-paragraph where blow-up-paragraph is the last paragraph which has a CALL "ILBOABN0" or its LE equivalent followed by GOBACK as the last two statements will that disrupt PERFORM optimization? Starting with VS COBOL II release 4 I have PERFORMed blow-up-paragrraph to make sure that my program is fully optimized. Clark Morris > >Cheers, >TomR >> COBOL is the Language of the Future! << > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
