Re: %EQUAL in a DOU loop

[Ken Sims <mr3111@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Bob -

> EVERY programmer, without exception, that I've seen code this type
> of stuff, assumes that READ and READE return a %FOUND() condition
> rather than %EOF(). %EOF may be important, but %FOUND is how we
> logically think it should be coded.
>
> I sure hope Hans & Barbara get a chance to "enhance" this in V5.3
> and also get to PTF it back to V3R2.  (Just kidding about the PTF
> thing).

While I agree that it would have been really, really, really nice if 
READ/READE/READP/READPE had been implemented to set %FOUND, I don't think 
it can be changed now because it would break programs that use a %FOUND 
condition from a CHAIN/SETLL/LOOKUP after some intervening READxx operation.

I don't do that, I eval the %FOUND status into a named indicator if I'm 
going to use it other than right after the operation that set it, but there 
are probably people that do, and those programs would stop working correctly.

Ken
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