RE: Free format DO, or make index optional

Not that I'm an expert, but RPG is the only language I know that has a
counter loop with an implied counter.  Sure, it's convenient and I've used
it plenty of times.  I guess the real question is what would it cost to
implement it in free form syntax?

OTOH I have a friend who's an excellent programmer who does everything with
a while loop.  In over 15 years of RPG he's incremented counters explicitly.
His rationale is that it leaves more brain cells available for solving more
complicated problems, it works, and it's as easy to read as anything else.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: rob@dekko.com [mailto:rob@dekko.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 12:35 PM
> To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: Free format DO, or make index optional
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> Ok, I use List API's.  In the generic header section it says
> how many list
> entries there are, GHListNbr.  What I want to do is:
>
> /free


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>        // Retrieve the generic list header.
> And I have no use whatsoever for X.  And X must be previously defined.
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> Rob Berendt
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> Rob Berendt wrote:
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> > I had a 1 do x.
> > I wanted to make that free form.  Can't be done.  I converted it to
> > for y=1 to x
> > But I have no use for y, in this case.
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> What are you trying to do?
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