The GO TO Statement
The GO TO statement causes control to be transferred from one part of the
Procedure Division to another.
The option of omitting procedure-name-1 in a Format 1 GO TO statement is
classed as an obsolete element in the ANSI'85 standard and is scheduled to
be deleted from the next full revision of the ANSI Standard.
All dialects in this COBOL implementation fully support this syntax. The
FLAGSTD Compiler directive can be used to detect all occurrences of this syntax.
Although it is a part of the standard COBOL definition, omitting the procedure-name
in Format 1 is explicitly excluded from the X/Open COBOL language definitions
and should not be used in an X/Open COBOL conforming source program.
General Formats


Syntax Rules
- Identifier is the name of a numeric elementary item which is an integer.
- When a paragraph is referenced by an ALTER statement, that paragraph can
consist only of a paragraph header followed by a Format 1 GO TO statement.
- A Format 1 GO TO statement, without procedure-name-1, can only appear in
a single statement paragraph.
This restriction is not enforced.
- If a Format 1 GO TO statement appears in a consecutive sequence of imperative
statements within a sentence, it must appear as the last statement in that
sequence.
- In Format 2, at least two procedure-names should be specified.
A Format 2 statement can be written with only one procedure name.
General Rules
- If procedure-name-1 is not specified in Format 1, an ALTER statement, referring
to this GO TO statement, must be executed prior to the execution of this GO
TO statement.

If an ALTER statement referring to the paragraph containing this GO TO statement
has not been executed before this GO TO statement is executed, this GO TO
statement is treated like a CONTINUE statement.
- When a GO TO statement represented by Format 1 is executed, control is transferred
to procedure-name-1 or to another procedure-name if the GO TO statement has
been modified by an ALTER statement.
- When a GO TO statement represented by Format 2 is executed, control is transferred
to procedure-name-1, procedure-name-2, and so on, depending on the value of
the identifier being 1, 2, ..., n. If the value of the identifier is anything
other than the positive or unsigned integers 1, 2, ..., n, then no transfer
occurs and control passes to the next statement in the normal sequence for
execution.