I'll bite. IMHO *nothing* that I can imagine justifies using SIGNAL as a pseudo-call/return GOTO.
I would "modularize" initialization that cannot (for the reasons discussed here recently) go into a subroutine by surrounding the instructions with "eyecatcher" comments. Charles On Thu, 14 Mar 2024 20:43:31 -0400, Phil Smith III <li...@akphs.com> wrote: >For me, this prompts discussion over "Is using SIGNAL worse than not >modularizing the initialization?": > >/**/ >stuff >signal DoInit >DoneInit: >. > >DoInit: >numeric digits 40 >. >signal DoneInit > >----------- > >Discuss :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN