Re: For Loop

I always use 32-bit integers (10i 0). They are the fastest to increment, and you're not really saving any effort or making the code more readable (or anything else that I can fathom) by using a 3,0 packed decimal. (Indeed, if anything, you're making the code more difficult to maintain because anyone who tries a number higher than 998 will have problems, and will have to stop and troubleshoot the new bug he's created... )

What value do you derive from using 3p0? What advantage does it give you? (Saves you 2 bytes of memory! LOL!)


On 7/2/2012 1:43 PM, Dave wrote:

Hi everyone,

A coworker got caught out by the For EndFor loop.

D wI S 3 0

For wI = 1 to %elem(arrayWith999Elements)

etc.
EndFor;

I said it was normal at the end that wI should be incremented to 1000,
thus making the program crash.

I wondered what the normal way would be to avoid this. I always use 5I
0 for my array index.
The coworker changed the DIM setting to 998!