Re: Perform loop enhancements

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

Date: 28 Oct 2004 16:46:19 -0700

Peter Lacey <lacey@mb.sympatico.ca> wrote

> Seems to me you're adhering to a principle at the expense of
> simplicity. If you have two different types of your exit
> paragraph/perform, and both of them are exactly equivalent to a GOTO -
> why not use a GOTO? Then there'd be no question as to which type of
> exit you're doing, nor would there be any doubt as to where control
> resumes.

This seems to be the trigger for where I do my usual discourse on "it
isn't the GOTO that is harmful, it is the label that it requires that
is the probelem", but I won't.

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