I don't know enough COBOL to contribute much more on that score. But I can now recall some of the COBOL programmer's words, "ALTER GOTO is the only sensible support for structured programming" which sounds like an eccentric view, if not actually mad :-)
He was clearly good at his job, though, and a clear thinker when it came to program design. It takes all sorts. And now I must spend few days in 'monk mode' to do some boring but necessary stuff! Roops On Sat, 1 Apr 2023, 13:04 Paul Gilmartin, < 0000042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Sat, 1 Apr 2023 11:30:24 +0100, Rupert Reynolds wrote: > > ... > >while in COBOL people were using ALTER with GOTO (oof!). > > > ??? > But didn't they need a CASE/SELECT to choose which ALTER? > > -- > gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
