Re: DOW & DOU

[Jerome Draper <jdraper@xxxxxxx>]

At 02:24 PM 5/8/98 -0500, you wrote:
>>Where would be a useful place for this structure?
>
>>> read filea
>>> DOU    %EOF(filea)
>>> ........
>>> .........
>>> read filea
>>> enddo
>
>For me it is a matter of writing explicitly clear, readable code. That
>doesn't make your method wrong, only wrong for me. Don't make this stuff
>religious, if the cycle works for you, good on ya! I prefer explicitly coded
>constructs without the reliance on invisible forces such as the cycle.

Roger, you musta neva done too much jumpropin' where ya gotta time the cycle.

Jerry

Jerry Draper, Trilobyte Software Systems, since 1976
Specializing in connecting PC's, Windows, MAC's, and LAN's to the AS/400
Representing Synapse, Apple, IBM, UDS, Nlynx, MI, DCI, Netsoft, etc.
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