Re: newbie question on cobol syntax

On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:34:58 GMT, "William M. Klein"
<wmklein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

As most people (but not all) agre, "mixing" next sentence with scope delimiters
is NOT a good thing to do.

I've heard of, but haven't come across code that used "next sentence"
to work as "exit paragraph".

paragraph-a.
if my-account = "zzzz"
next sentence
end-if
perform a
perform b
perform c
.
paragraph-b.

I don't care for this myself. CoBOL should be clear and should avoid
"tricks" wherever possible.


Eschew obfuscation.
.

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