Please list from all those languages in which of them the logic flow changes by adding a label.
There is nothing intrinsic with ALTER ... TO PROCEED TO ... or GO TO ... DEPENDING ON ... or GO TO itself which makes it "bad", it is the way that they were (ab)used. "My program is 'Structured' because I replaced all the GO TOs with a 'Structured' construct'. Well, no. It is my expectation that the new EXIT options will be roundly (ab)used. Future history will tell. Since I have no normal need for GO TO, I have no normal need for these constructs. This biases me against them. Superficially, anything which enhances the idea to use single paragraphs (or SECTIONs with no paragraphs) for PERFORM is good. No dumb "exit paragraphs" means no target for a GO TO. However, if then secret GO TOs can instead be used, some of the point is lost. Practically, no program is going to be changed to replace PERFORM ... THRU ... or PERFORM of a SECTION containing (referenced) paragraphs just because EXIT PARAGRPAH exists. Yet EXIT PARAGRAPH and EXIT SECTION are there, and quite posibly will be used in those situations. After all, they are "Structured" so "good" and better than a GO TO, so the thinking will go. Is the behaviour clear? I suppose ask people. In my example in the first post, I suspect that people will assume the "exit paragraph" 'exits' the PERFORM. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
