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Evan Harris wrote:
I can't see how you can say you are completely comfortable with the cycle
There are varying degrees of understanding The Cycle. Being aware of the
need to either use, short-circuit, bypass, or disable it, is one level.
Being able to use it with a primary file, to detect funky data and
either repair it (interactively or quietly) or spool a report on it, or
to use it without a primary file as the event-loop of an interactive
program, is another level. Being able to use level breaks, secondary
files, total time, and so forth, and to do with no more trouble than it
would be to just hand-code the equivalent logic, is yet another level.
I'm entirely comfortable with The Cycle at my own level of
understanding. But then again, the biggest stretch I've ever had to make
was to use "total time" for a statement or two.
If needed to maintain a program that used level breaks, secondary files,
and so forth, I could probably figure it out, and have a much easier
time of it than I'd have trying to write something from scratch using
such things.
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