Re: %EQUAL in a DOU loop

[Douglas Handy <dhandy1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob,

>EVERY programmer, without exception, that I've seen code this type
>of stuff, assumes that READ and READE return a %FOUND() condition
>rather than %EOF(). %EOF may be important, but %FOUND is how we
>logically think it should be coded.

Not every one.  Since learning RPG II in the 70's, I've always considered the
indicator on a READx opcode to be end of file, and I "read" the source that way
when reading indicator laden code.  That is, I think to myself "indicator xx is
end of file", while for a CHAIN my mental note is "indicator xx is no record
found".

As such, I have over 20 years of mentally equating READx to EOF and CHAIN to
NRF, so the transition to %EOF and %FOUND was trivial.

Besides, assuming things is almost always bad. :)

Doug