I know I said I was done, but this is one of those "On the other hand" deals...
I was lucky that I was a junior programmer under a guy I still refer to as the Cycle god.... I'd have to say that if I had only the IBM documentation to learn RPG cycle programming, I'd be doing Full Procedural processing exclusively.
Now I'm Done...
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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James Lampert
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 1:49 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Re: Good places to use "The Cycle" in today's RPG was->Re: FW: Niftiest thing(s) you have done in RPG ILE or /FREE
rick baird wrote:
OH BOY!!!! ANOTHER CYCLE THREAD!!!!! WOOHOO!
I use the cycle for multiple field control break processing. The main
reason is that there is really only one way to do it using level break
indicators, while there are as many roll-your-own control break
techniques as there are programmers who write them.
I don't trust anyone else's roll-your-own control break routines, so
it doesn't bother me if they don't trust mine.
One of these days, I'd really love to learn how to do that. It *actually
does* bother me that there's a major feature of The Cycle that I've had
little or no success using, even if there have only been a few occasions
when it would have been of practical use in my own Cycle programs. On at
least one of those occasions, I futzed around for hours without
accomplishing much, and ultimately ended up just doing a "roll-your-own."
--
James H. H. Lampert
Touchtone Corporation
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