Mark Johnson wrote: > This appears to be the semi-annual GOTO holy war.
But only one side is fighting. Leave it alone Mark. Nothing good came of it last time, and nothing good will come of it this time. Those who believe GOTOs have their uses will not be convinced otherwise by a thread on a mailing list like this, and those of us who avoid GOTOs completely will similarly not change their mindset for you. > I would like for someone to offer me some code segments to perform the > following MVquery statement as a true data/basic program: > > SORT CUSTOMER BY STATE BY CITY NAME BREAK-ON CITY BREAK-ON STATE TOTAL > YTD-SALES > > I really would like to see how the other side programs this. Not that I intend to take this further Mark, but are you seriously trying to imply that sorting, breakpointing and totalling cannot be done well without using GOTO? Although I have trouble envisioning it, I'm confident that there is a coding solution to this specific problem that makes use of GOTO, and I'm sure that you have such a solution in mind. Great. If that makes you productive and you clients happy, then I'm all for it. Just so long as I don't have to consult at one of your client sites once you've retired. My mind simply doesn't work that way. I tend to think about iteration before I look at branches. That drives me towards nested LOOPs and all sorts of structures in which GOTOs are, to my mind, both superfluous and dangerous. I don't want to get into this Holy War. Time was when I'd have taken up the cudgel, but it doesn't achieve anything when you are more than an arm's length away! I'd rather disagree without becoming disagreeable. Please simply take it as read that any problem that can be solved in BASIC using a GOTO, can also be solved without using it. Similarly, I assume that anything I can code a solution to has at least one equivalent solution that involves a GOTO statement. Cheers, Ken ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
