Re: To ride The Cycle or not to ride (was Re: INZSR weirdness)

["Carel Teijgeler" <coteijgeler@xxxxxxxxx>]

You can test this easily:

FSCREEN     CF                        WORKSTN
FCLIENT        IF                         DISK
C                          READ CLIENT                                  LR
C                          EXFMTSCREEN

I wrote a similar programme once, being the teacher, to introduce RPG 
programming to trainees (better then an "Hello World" example). You will see 
that the last record will be shown twice, thus LR is tested at the bottom.

It is a Cycle programme, because the main line in RPG is auto-iterating.

Regards,
Carel Teijgeler.

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On 30-11-05 at 13:57 daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>> The anti-cyclists still use the cycle.  They just don't understand it.
>
>Speaking as one who thinks that he understands it but doesn't use it unless
>it's an existing program that needs modification I have to ask--Is it a
>cycle program if LR is set on before it iterates (i.e. is it top-tested or
>bottom-tested)?  If it's bottom-tested then it would never "cycle" back to
>test LR.  It would test it at the bottom, find it on, and end.  Thus, it
>wouldn't technically be a cycle program.
>
>If I had to guess I would say that it is top-tested in which case you would
>be right and all programs would be cycle programs.  If not, then it would
>be a cycle-capable program.  This getting a bit nitpicky.