RE: [open-cobol-list] feature request: EXIT PERFORM ; 1985 - MF-Extension; 2002 Standard

[William M. Klein]

I like the EXIT PERFROM <cycle> enhancement from the 2002 Standard (and MF
extension). I did want to say, howver, that I think that the

   EXIT PARAGRAPH/SECTION 

enhancement may be even MORE valuable.  It allows a programer to (finally)
get rid of all PERFORM THRU and GO TO xxx-EXIT syntax, which (historically)
is very error prone.

The "problem" of doing a "exit immediately" from the middle of a paragraph
(or section) withOUT using "non-structured" syntax is (in my opinion) one of
the really IMPORTANT enhancements of the 2002 Standard.

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:address@hidden On 
> Behalf Of Thomas Biehler
> Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 8:35 AM
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: Keisuke Nishida; address@hidden
> Subject: [open-cobol-list] feature request: EXIT PERFORM ; 
> 1985 - MF-Extension; 2002 Standard
> 
> hi keisuke,
> 
> i hope you have finished your moving 
> without any damages ...:-)
> 
> Please implement the "EXIT PERFORM"  feature 
> (IMO  a very usefull extension! ,  low priority , 5 programs)
>  as a 
>     - 1985 MF-Cobol Extension and
>     - (new) ISO 2002 feature.
> 
> The documentation references are integrated in the
> attached patch-file for extensions.at (tests/run.src).
> 
> Thanks and bye!
> 
> Thomas
>