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From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Is this kosher?
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Date: 30 Jan 91 15:24:19 GMT
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In article <20785@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt4512c@prism.gatech.EDU (BRADBERRY,JOHN L) writes:
}In article <2796@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski) writes:
}>In article <20773@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt4512c@prism.gatech.EDU (BRADBERRY,JOHN L) writes:
}>}In article <2787@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski) writes:
}>
}>It ain't my code... I've seen this quite a few times on VAX machines (their
}>FORTRAN accepts it without even a hiccup) but, of course, when porting to
}>other machines the code dies a horrible death. Sometimes it does make sense
}>to do this if the block you are referring back to is large... of course, in
}>that case is better to just make it "into" a subroutine and use it as such.
}>
}
}Sorry about the 'assumption' implied in my response! 

Nothing to be sorry 'bout :):)

}
}Suggesting that it makes sense to violate structured programming techniques
}in this manner is similar to the arguments for GOTO's,COMEFROM'S,LINE NUMBERS,
}and other ingredients that frequently result in 'spaghetti code'.
}

I'm not suggesting that it makes sense to violate strucured techniques, I'm
only saying that at times I see sense in the reason it's DONE that way... I don't
necessarily approve, but I understand why... Of course, I don't think that you
were suggesting that I was suggesting... :):):)

You recall COMEFROM's too, huh? Anyway, nobody likes GOTO's... until they really
NEED one... even C concedes this rather nasty point.

Cheers!
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           Jim Jagielski                    NASA/GSFC, Code 711.1
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