Cobol - Re: Para1 THRU Para2 (was: Infinite Loops and Explicit Exits

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Re: Para1 THRU Para2 (was: Infinite Loops and Explicit Exits

Peter Lacey

2004-11-18, 8:55 am

Robert Wagner wrote:
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> What's wrong with it is program bloat. Practitioners PERFORM .. THRU
> -EXIT on every blasted paragraph, not just the minority (if any) that
> need an exit.
>
Practioners likely do this to avoid the possibility of coding

PERFORM xxx.

when they should code

PERFORM xxx THRU xxx-exit.

Either you NEVER use THRU or you ALWAYS use THRU. Either way you'll
never have that particular logic fault.

PL

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