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  3. January 2009

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

I was taught the same thing. In today's world there is no use (to me) for
a GOTO, but occasionally I have used LEAVE to end a loop prematurely. I've
never used ITER as there are plenty of ways to make sure the data is
sorted and qualified beforehand that ITER (to me) has been pointless.

GUY_HENZA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I was taught structured programming in 1980 and I have never written
a new
program with a GOTO, ITER or LEAVE. I consider them to be poor
program
design.

Hmm. Sounds like you were taught by a fanatical disciple of Wirth.

There is nothing inherently bad about ITER or LEAVE, provided they are
used in situations (e.g., brute-force table look-up) in which premature
exit of a loop is the norm, and completion of the loop is the exception.

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James H. H. Lampert
Touchtone Corporation

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