Re: pattern for an error


Howard Brazee <howard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Wed, 28 May 2008 17:36:48 +0000 (UTC), docdwarf@xxxxxxxxx () wrote:

IF FILE-STATUS-OK
CONTINUE
ELSE
GO TO BAD-FILE-STATUS
END-IF.

Wait a moment... how did IKFCBL00 compile that?

I don't know what IKFCBL00 is, but my IBM compiler will compile it.
But the people who code with Go To are also the people who don't use
END-IF.

A calumny, that, thou poltroon.

END-IF is too useful not to be used, even for the non-GOTO-challenged.

PL


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