Replace all GOTO statements with Perform

krisprems · Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 8:52 pm

Hi, I have a requitrement to repalce all GOTOs with Perform. Can anyone suggest any tips for this?

thanks
Krisprems

krisprems · Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 8:53 pm

FYI, I have 500+ GoTo statements ...

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 9:36 pm

dick scherrer · Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 9:45 pm

Hello,

Keep in mind that many GO TO statements are not directly replacable by a PERFORM.

Is there no real work to be done? This will probably take quite a lot of time and may introduce many problems if the testing is not most comprehensive. Is this all one program or many?

What business reason is there to do this at this point? And no, this is not a business "requirement". You may be stuck doing this, but the reason is probably just because someone wants it (and not the users).

If this is to make the code more maintainable, suggest you consider re-writing the code from the specs rather than trying to salvage the existing code.

Bill Woodger · Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 9:47 pm

If you have one program with 500+ GO TOs, you'd be better off starting from scratch.

PeterHolland · Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 9:59 pm

Ed Goodman · Active Member Joined: 08 Jun 2011 Posts: 556 Location: USA

Wait...

You realize that a PERFORM statement comes back when it's done, right? While a go to does NOT come back.

So you cant just "replace" a go to with a PERFORM. You have to change how the program flows.

Can you give a short example of one or two of the go to statements you have to replace?

Anuj Dhawan · Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2011 4:35 pm

I don't think its worth getting too bogged down worrying about using GO TO's or not, or PERFORM THRU's. What is more relevant is what do the existing programs do?

In short, there is no direct approach. It'll take time and effort.

Phrzby Phil · Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2011 5:13 pm

If you do proceed, do a few at a time in one section of the program, then perform complete testing.

If you do too many and testing fails, you'll be lost.

I do presume you have a complete test plan ... ?

krisprems · Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2011 6:31 pm

All thanks for your inputs!

cheers
Krisprems

Bill Woodger · Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2011 8:04 pm

That's it? No more actual detail? Leave us all hanging as to whether you ever see the light again after entering the GO-TO-Pit-of-Doom....

Good luck then :-)

Ed Goodman · Active Member Joined: 08 Jun 2011 Posts: 556 Location: USA

He must have left a go to in the wrong place!

Phrzby Phil · Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 5:32 pm

Maybe he's performing everything now and keeps returning to the same place.

Reminds me of that great Star Trek time-loop episode with the poker game.

Bill Woodger · Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 5:54 pm

Ph... er, Phil, Are you thinking of the episode where they were trying to throw away a boomerang?

Or was it a Frisbee?

Phrzby Phil · Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 5:58 pm

No - An older Starfleet vessel kept coming out of a space/time thingy and they kept crashing - only to return back to the poker game after each commercial break (amazing timing in its own). Deja vu kept getting stronger, and they eventually found a way to transmit a bit of info via lt. Cmd. Data's circuitry into the next cycle that Capt. Riker's suggestion to avoid the collision was the right one.

daveporcelan · Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 6:18 pm

I was in my own time warp trying to recall Capt. Kirk playing poker with Mr. Spok.

Bill Woodger · Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 8:04 pm

Mine was my latest contribution to "Give an Old Joke a New Home Week".

I suspect that Mr Spock was a bit of a wizz at "Enterprise Cobol".

Capt Kirk, as piece of wood flies off into the distance and stays away this time, "I did it!".
Mr Spock, raising one eyebrow, "According to my Tri-corder, sir, that was a stick".

Ed Goodman · Active Member Joined: 08 Jun 2011 Posts: 556 Location: USA

"Cause and Effect"

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Cause_and_Effect_%28episode%29

Bill Woodger · Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 12:56 am

Akatsukami · Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 1:01 am

Ed Goodman · Active Member Joined: 08 Jun 2011 Posts: 556 Location: USA

There were alternate opinions of how to move the ship out of the way. Enterprise was without warp drive or impulse drive. Riker's suggestion was to pop open the shuttle bay and let the rush of air jet-propel the ship out of the way. The other option was to use the tractor beam.

Since data had kept seeing the number "3", he went with Riker's option because Riker has three pips on his collar.

I messed up the above link...here is the correct link:
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Cause_and_Effect_%28episode%29

Phrzby Phil · Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 5:30 pm

Ed has answered - thanks.

I'll add: previously Riker made his suggestion each time, but Data overrode it each time, leading to catastrophe. Finally, as Ed says, the clue transmitted to the final loop led Data to take Riker's idea.

A GREAT show if you ask me. Someone asked, right?

Oh, now I remember, the question was about GOTO and PERFORM!

hahahahahahaha