Re: COBOL ain't quite dead - yet !

On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:44:59 -0600, "tlmfru" <lacey@xxxxxxx> wrote:

What was worse was PERFORMING a label and then, within the scope of that
PERFORM doing a GOTO to it as well. That isn't formally forbidden but
always struck me as a chancy thing to do. (It was a method used to
implement loops before PERFORM/END-PERFORM was available).

When I worked for EDS a decade or more ago, our published standard was
for each perform to be of a section that consisted of a paragraph and
an exit which wasn't used. I disliked it back then, and hope it has
been changed since.

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than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."

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