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  3. March 2008

Re: Need Some RPG Technical Questions

Jeff Young wrote:
For those who claim to either *never* use the cycle or rarely use it,
I have the following question: Do you *always* explicitly open and
close all the files used in your programs/procedures? If not, you
*are* using the cycle. The cycle implicitly opens all files except
those coded as usropn, and closes all open files when *INLR is on and
program ends.

Good point, except that there *are* a *few* languages that implicitly
open and close files, without having anything analogous to The Cycle.
Some dialects of BASIC (including IBM VS-BASIC, as I recall from my high
school mainframe days), for example.


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