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

Please all don't hate me too much ;-), but I HATE cycle programs. It never
fails I have to update one and have to use an ugly GOTO. I have never and
will never personally write one.

I find that:
dou (%eof(file));
read file myDS;
if (%eof(file));
leave;
endif;

if (not valid());
iter;
endif;
enddo;

is much easier to understand than GOTO. The GOTO doesn't always go to the
END, it could process stuff further down and I just hate trying to figure
out what it's doing.

Then again, I have the "If I can't do it in free, then I don't need it"
philosophy.

James R. Perkins
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