GO TO Statement
















GO TO statement


       GO TO statement permanently transfers control from one part of program to other 
       part of program. 


       Format.

          GO TO  Paragraph-name.



       Example - 

	    PROCEDURE DIVISION.
            MAIN-PARA.

                  DISPLAY 'MAINPARA STARTS HERE'.
        
                  GO TO PARA-1.

                  DISPLAY 'A VALUE ', A.

                  STOP RUN.

            PARA-1.
                 COMPUTE A = B + C.


         

            
         In above exmaple, control first executes the DISPLAY statement to display the string 
         ' MAINPARA STARTS HERE' , then control executes GO TO statement, now control will go 
         to PARA-1 and executes COMPUTE statement.  that's it. control wont come back to next 
         statement after GO TO, because control permanently transfered to PARA-1


          - Structured programming languages techniques suggest to avoid using GO TO , 
            use PERFORM instead
          - Programmer may face more logic errors with GO TO compare than PERFORM
          - Readability of programs goes down, if we use more GO TO statements in the program