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  3. December 2001

Re: Cycle Processing vs. Doing it my way

IMHO, there is nothing inherently evil about using level breaks or matching
record to produce reports.  RPG, after all, -is- Report Program Generator.

Jon Paris wrote:

>  >> If IBM, in their infinite wisdom :-), left the cycle available, why not
> use it.
>
> Well I for one wanted to drop it when we did RPG IV - but I accepted that
> for compatibility reasons we needed to leave it in there.  Besides, it was
> more work to remove it from the compiler that we used as the base for RPG IV
> that it was to leave it there!!
>
> My personal hope was that no one would write new stuff using it ..... but
> .......
>

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