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 still agree with the sentiment that writing an endless loop isn't as
maintainable. You are now doing 2 logic checks instead of 1. You have to
do the check of whether 1=1 and then check if you are at the end of file.
I know that you will never see the differenece when running a program but
think of all the cpu cycles that are being wasted in the course of time by
code written this way. If you have a popular ERP system that is made up
of thousands of programs and everytime a file is read through you have
these extra logic steps you can quickly see how many cpu cycles will be
wasted by your package if you have thousands of customers. Everyday, all
day, this stuff goes on. The numbers quickly become larger than what we
can count on our fingers and toes.

Maybe I'm too much of a purist, but I really don't like the current
programming mentality that, just because the machines are bigger now the
code doesn't need to be written as efficiently because no one will really
notice. Its that kind of attitude that gives us things like Windows
Vista. Its pervasive, like it or not, and it eventually does show up
somewhere.


Thanks
Bryce Martin
Programmer/Analyst I
Ext. 4777



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Just have to chime in here.

One of my professors "dinged" us for primary reads. His reason? If you
have a do loop check it then. His style was

Dow 1= 1
Read
If %EOf
Leave
Endif
Process
Enddo

I still remember the ruler on my hands.

Sharon Wintermute

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Your both wrong. :-)

Read file;

DoW Not %Eof(file);
// process data
Read file;
EndDo;

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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>

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Niftiest thing(s) you have done in RPG ILE or /FREE

Wow, just back from lunch and so many posts. I consider ITER and
LEAVE

to

be backwards from the way I think. I condition on what I

want to do

not

on

what I don't want to do.

dou eof;
read file;
if not eof;
processdata;
endif;
enddo;

This makes more sense to me than;

dou eof;
read file;
if eof;
leave;
endif;
processdata;
enddo;

That's my opinion and I'm sticking with it.

Regards,

Guy

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If you don't use ITER or LEAVE do you just have a giant IF
statement,

with

loads of nested IF's? I really can't see how you could

right a program

that
uses logic any other way, but then again just because I

can't think if

doesn't mean there is not a way.

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