> Yea, fond memories. COBOL-B ran in 8K, no PERFORM verb, only first 3
> characters of datanames were significant. That was when ALTER statement was
> valuable.
'Fond memories' of times when ALTER was 'valuable'? As Aeschylus said,
'Great hardships make for later entertainments'.
Related:
COME FROM n.
A semi-mythical language construct dual to the
`go to' COME FROM <label> would cause the referenced label
to act as a sort of trapdoor, so that if the program ever reached
it control would quietly and automagically be transferred to
the statement following the COME FROM....