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Monday February 03, 2003
10:14 AM
As if old code wasn't bad enough
PL/SQL has a GOTO. And the code I'm looking at uses it.
/me tears my clothes, dons sackcloth, and sprinkles my head with ashes.
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GOTO (Score:2)
Used well and appropriately goto is a blessing.
Re:GOTO (Score:2)
In this case it seems to be used for a rudimentary exception handling routine. I would have definitely handled this with real exceptions (PL/SQL is the language where I first learned what exceptions were, although Java is the language where I learned to like them. Wait! Don't hit me!) or with conditional logic, but after getting to the point where I understand what the program is doing, I have to say it really isn't too bad of a problem.
This morning's post was just a snapshot of me in panic mode as I d
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