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

That is a maintence nightmare for most new programmers. Lets code an
endless loop and make you figure out when I want to terminate it with the
leave.

IMHO,1 should never code an endless loop DOW 1 = 1......not very
documenting
2 Leave and Iter are limited varations of a GOTO, but not
GOTOS themselves. I can make a GOTO/TAG do the same thing as a Iter or
Leave ( would that be ok then?)

dow 1 = 1
read file
if eof
Goto End
endif
... processdata
enddo
Tag End

3 Leave and Iters just show that the programmer didn't want or
have the time to properly figure out the loop termination points


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I do it the way you don't.

dow '1';
read file;
if eof;
leave;
endif;
processdata;
enddo;

That's MY opinion and I'm sticking to it. <g>