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One-way transfer of control to a program location

Illustration

Consider these paragraphs in Language:Cobol: 

P1.
  GO TO P2.
  DISPLAY "P1".

P2.
  DISPLAY "P2".

The program will display only "P2" and not "P1" because a goto is a one-way transfer statement, i.e., control is not transferred back to the site of the goto after completing the paragraph targeted by the goto. In Cobol, we could use a PERFORM statemen for two-way transfer: 

P0.
  PERFORM P1.

P1.
  PERFORM P2.
  DISPLAY "P1".

P2.
  DISPLAY "P2".

This program would print "P2" followed by "P1".

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