Re: [Cobolforgcc-devel] GOTO

[Tim J. <te...@me...>]

I am planning to do alter/alterable-goto but not for a while. It
is quite easy to implement using the GCC back end (GCC has an
'address of label' type).

I already support comment-entries (via the presprocessor).

Tim Josling

"William M. Klein" wrote:
> 
> Are you planning on doing ALTER/GO TO?  It is in the '85 Standard - but not
> in the draft of the next one.  My guess is that it is not only "ugly" for
> programmers to maintain application code - but also "ugly" to implement.
> 
> My personal suggestion would be that it should be "low" on any list of
> things to implement (along with all the other items that are EXPLICITLY
> "obsolete" in the '85 Standard - with the possible exception of
> "comment-entries" in the Identification Division.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cob...@li...
> > [mailto:cob...@li...]On Behalf Of Tim
> > Josling
> > Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 1:41 AM
> > To: cobolforgcc-devel
> > Subject: [Cobolforgcc-devel] GOTO
> >
> >
> > GOTO now works and is in the CVS on sourceforge, including goto
> > depending on.
> > Tim Josling