On Tue, Aug 5, 2025 at 11:41 AM Brad Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Finding it doesn't make it good coding. I've seen worse. I've done
worse. :)

What mystifies me the most is how often some people like to take
aspects of the various approaches and arrange them into something
worse than any of them, such as

setll
if %equal
dow not %eof
reade
if %eof
leave
endif
stuff
enddo
endif

Yeah. Way to go, avoiding the cardinal sin of an "infinite loop".

John Y.

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