RE: MOVE opcode in freeform (was Strange behavior w/%editc)

[James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Bob Cozzi (RPGIV) wrote:

> written, they do NOT have DOW and DOU operation codes. They have:
>
>
>   Do {
>     //  insert code to run here;
>
>   }  while ( x != NULL)
>
>
> So what they're talking about is that a programmer can easily miss the
> fact that the above code is a DO/WHILE loop instead of a do loop.
> Actually this translates to a DO UNTIL (DOU) in RPG.

In C you can also code:

while (condition)
{
        do you stuff...
}

which is the equivalent of RPG's DO WHILE (DOW).  In my experience this
type of while statement is more common.

James Rich
james@eaerich.com