It is fairly normal for COBOL development teams to decide to work either with sections or with paragraphs and to make this choice a standard.
When sections are used, it is also normal to define another standard: "End every section definition with an empty paragraph definition, or a paragraph containing only a terminating statement".
This empty paragraph can then be jumped to with a ``++GO TO++`` statement to stop the execution of a section.
Accepted terminating statements in the otherwise-empty ending paragraph are: ``++EXIT++``, ``++EXIT PROGRAM++``, ``++STOP RUN++``, and ``++GO BACK++``.
