Cobol - Re: Infinite Loops and Explicit Exits

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Re: Infinite Loops and Explicit Exits

Joe Zitzelberger

2004-11-16, 8:55 pm

In article <cnd447$bee$1@peabody.colorado.edu>,
"Howard Brazee" <howard@brazee.net> wrote:

> On 16-Nov-2004, Joe Zitzelberger <joe_zitzelberger@nospam.com> wrote:
>
>
> I've used a macro-assembler that looked just like BASIC. I see no real
> problem in having a macro-assembler that did this. (Haven't seen one though)

What if "some-sub-routine" doesn't properly finish until point Y? How
is it save to demand an exit at X?

The entire point of subroutines is that they are usable from more than a
single place -- to make the caller intimately aware of the subroutines
exit is to void that benefit.

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