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  3. July 2002

Re: MI as the MI language of the as400.

From: Joe Pluta <joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com>
> There is no "condition"; the index itself determines the
> branch.  Good catch.
>
> or this horror:
> >
> > ALTER PPP TO QQQ

> This one doesn't pass the test, though.  The ALTER instruction is ugly, but
> doesn't do any conditional processing - that is, it always performs the
same
> instructions regardless of program data.  Therefore, in itself it cannot
> support, say, a DO WHILE loop.  You would still have to have a way of
> conditionally executing the ALTER command.
>

true, of course, but ugly nevertheless. Now combine ALTER with
GO TO ... DEPENDING ON  (I have seen this!) and you feel like
taking the programmer out to be shot.

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