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"Chris Pando" <chris.pando@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I no more go "out of my way" to avoid the cycle than I do to avoid GOTOs.
Wrong.It is IMPOSSIBLE to avoid The Cycle in RPG without going out of your way to do so. Maybe not very far out of your way, but you still have to do SOMETHING. There is not so much as a single non-cycle RPG program in existence that does not either use a RETURN statement (or RETRN for OPM), or at some point explicitly set the LR indicator to the "on" state, in order to keep The Cycle from iterating.
I stand by the main thrust of my argument: if you're not using either The Cycle, or the close integration between RPG and display files, or the ability to call external programs not known at compile time, then you should probably consider a language other than RPG. Conversely, if you're writing non-Cycle RPG programs that either walk through an entire file, or continue doing some action until they're told to stop, then you've probably got at least one more nesting level than your program truly needs.
-- JHHL
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