Re: Perform loop enhancements

From: Richard (riplin_at_Azonic.co.nz)
Date: 10/29/04 

Date: 28 Oct 2004 16:38:06 -0700

"Chuck Stevens" <charles.stevens@unisys.com> wrote

> "The execution of an EXIT PARAGRAPH statement causes control to be passed to
> an implicit CONTINUE statement immediately following the last explicit
> statement of the current paragraph, preceding any return mechanisms for that
> paragraph." EXIT PARAGRAPH would NOT terminate the execution of an
> out=of-line PERFORM, it'd just bypass the code that might have been executed
> from the point at which it occurred to the end of the perform range.

It certainly goes to the end of the paragraph, but this would only be
the end of the perform range if the perform was only of that
paragraph. If it was a PERFORM section then it may continue at the
next paragraph of that section.

An EXIT SECTION would end the current perform cycle if it was a
performed section and would, potentially, make the program go berzerk
if it was a performed paragraph.

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