On 4/10/2018 7:14 PM, Phil Smith III wrote:
Seriously, I'm chary of doing something just to fit some arbitrary rule like "more than n arguments is bad". This reminds me of the "GOTOs are bad": yes, they often are, but there are plenty of cases where a simple GOTO makes the code MUCH simpler. Taking it back to Rexx, use of SIGNAL for error handlers is such a case. I'm sure this will set off a bunch of folks, but I maintain that code like this:
Yet folks say "Oooh, SIGNAL is like GOTO, and GOTO is unequivocally bad, so I must not use SIGNAL". And this results in fugly, unreadable code.
Phil, Heck, I still get crap for using LEAVE and ITERATE. Regards, Tom Conley ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
