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  • Subject: Re: DOU/DOW for READ Loops (My final word)
  • From: Jim Langston <jlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 10:42:13 -0700
  • Organization: Conex Global Logistics Services, Inc.

MSC++ 6.0 has break; C has has break for a long time, as far as I
am aware.  I am not sure what ITER does, though, unless it jumps
to the beginning of the DO/WHILE or FOR/NEXT loop immediately,
in which case I think it has that too.

They are just very seldom used, as they are considered poor programming
techniques.

Oh, dang, maybe I shouldn't of used the word "poor".  Got any of those
abestos suits left?

Regards,

Jim Langston

Joel Fritz wrote:

> You and Simon both pointed out the C read loop.  I agree it makes for very
> elegant file reading.  C is also the language that _needs_ the equivalents
> of iter and leave (continue and break) to do stuff that the RPG SELECT
> statement handles much more neatly.
>
> I dunno, nobody's perfect.

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