Re: Using LIKE to define records in 4GL

In article <DCrDtB.Eov@its.csiro.au> peter@prospect.anprod.csiro.au "Peter Wiley" writes: <big snip> > My pet hate is the GOTO statement, which I have NEVER used. Recently had > to debug/rewrite someone else's code which was riddled with GOTO > statements. We use one form of GOTO - 'GOTO exit_function' when an error has occured. We could use 'RETURN ....' but the 'GOTO' means that we only code the 'RETURN' in one place which makes it easier to avoid the errors to do with RETURNing the wrong number of variables! -- ============================================================================ Sally Woolrich | This mail contains my personal sally@excelsis.demon.co.uk | views not those of my employer! ============================================================================