RE: DOU/DOW for READ Loops (My final word)

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

break and continue are the equivalents to, respectively, leave and iter.
Sorry I wasn't clear. 

The switch statement in C doesn't work very well without them.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Langston [mailto:jlangston@conexfreight.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 21, 2000 10:42 AM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: DOU/DOW for READ Loops (My final word)
> 
> 
> 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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