Ruby article

[Joe Van Dyk]

Fairly interesting article on Ruby:=20
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2005/08/27/Ruby

I'm not familiar with COBOL though, can someone explain how the
'retry' example in the Pickaxe is supposedly bad?

 

[ts]

J> I'm not familiar with COBOL though, can someone explain how the
J> 'retry' example in the Pickaxe is supposedly bad?

Well ALTER in COBOL is something like this (if memory is good)

PERFORM 10-ACTION THRU 99-EXIT.

10-ACTION.
* the first call to PERFORM will go here
ALTER 10-ACTION TO 20-ACTION.
GOTO 99-EXIT.

20-ACTION.
* the next call to PERFORM will go here
GOTO 99-EXIT.

99-EXIT.
EXIT.

When you read the PERFORM statement you can't know where the program will
go because this can changed latter with a ALTER


Guy Decoux