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  3. November 2010

Re: MAIN or cycleless programs.

BMay@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
The MAIN keyword was added in 6.1. You specify a subprocedure name on the MAIN keyword and that procedure become the program entry point. Doing this allows you have an ILE program with no logic cycle.

It also allows you to handle your variable scoping much better. Just because your main logic needs access to a variable, does not necessarily mean that every procedure in the program needs to have access.

Fascinating.

Definitely better, in a production non-Cycle program, to exclude The Cycle entirely, than to circumvent it.

If it's there, and you can make use (conventional or otherwise) of it, use it. But if you can't make use of it, you're better off without it.

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JHHL

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