RE: FW: Random

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

C'mon, Booth, it's just another way of setting up a counter loop that's more
like other languages.  I have a friend who's been programming in RPG since
the system 3 who never coded a DO counter loop because he thought the
positional notation was counterintuitive.  (He's very good, by the way.) He
codes his counter loops in a DOW with explicit addition or subtraction.  It
doesn't hurt anyone to have a free form analogue to the DO construct.    

> -----Original Message-----
> From: boothm@earth.Goddard.edu [mailto:boothm@earth.Goddard.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 12:02 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: FW: Random
> 
> 
> oh great.  now we've got "downto"s.
> 
> Sorry Hans, I know these are great additions and everyone 
> else will be 
> breathing hard for a week but I don't see a big difference 
> between this 
> and a DO loop with a "downto" added for glamour.
> 
> Please excuse me being grumpy.   I don't see these 
> enhancements adding a 
> thing to RPG's competitiveness, or to the AS/400's appeal to 
> the business 
> community.
> 
> I'll regret sending this I know, but damn... "downto"s? 
> _______________________
> Booth Martin
> boothm@earth.goddard.edu
> http://www.spy.net/~booth
> _______________________
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