Cobol - Re: ALTER design (Was: Code problems with Perform Thru Exit causesfallthrough)

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Re: ALTER design (Was: Code problems with Perform Thru Exit causesfallthrough)

tlmfru

2007-08-01, 9:55 pm

Arnold Trembley <arnold.trembley@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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> Are you sure the actual example looked like this? I can see your
> point, but I don't know if my compiler would allow a paragraph to have
> the same name as the READ reserved word.

No, the para-name wasn't READ but this is for illustration only.

> As late as 1990 I used to have to maintain a macro-level CICS program
> with 42 ALTER statements in it, very similar to the examples in the
> recent "'GO TO' HELL" thread. I'm not sure I ever fully understood
> the control flow and I was very relieved when that application was
> shut down for good in 1992.
> http://arnold.trembley.home.att.net/

Good lord. Did you consider self-disembowelling as a less painful
alternative?

PL

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