== Why is this an issue?

Call stacks containing lot of ``++PERFORM++`` statements is a key ingredient for making what's known as "Spaghetti code".

Such code is hard to read, refactor and therefore maintain.


This rule supports both sections and paragraphs. 


=== Noncompliant code example

With a threshold of 3:

[source,cobol]
----
PERFORM FIRST.

FIRST.
  PERFORM SECOND.

SECOND.
  PERFORM THIRD.

THIRD.
  PERFORM FOURTH.  *> Noncompliant

FOURTH.
  DISPLAY something.
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'''
== Implementation Specification
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=== Message

This module can trigger long chain of up to 6 PERFORMs, for example using the ones at line: 123 -> 23 -> 54 -> ...


=== Parameters

.max
****

----
5
----

Maximum allowed call stack
****


'''
== Comments And Links
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=== is related to: S1684

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