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From: jas@postgres.uucp (James Shankland)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Ingres GOTO...?
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Date: 21 Sep 89 05:48:39 GMT
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In article <546@piglet.vision.UUCP> tony@cim.leeds.ac.uk (Tony Jenkins) writes:
>Does anyone know how to do an unconditional branch in Ingres 4GL (that's
>a GOTO, for any BASIC programmers)?? The Ingres in question is Release 6 
>running under VAX/VMS.

These days, GOTO's are out of favor even in 3GL's; some Dutch guy claims
they're harmful (*).  They almost certainly don't belong in 4GL's.  
I'll bet you can live without them.

jas

(*) Yes, of *course* :-)