RE: Infinit loop in /free

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Wilbert van der Hoeven
> 
> I would never set On to *Off. But I can't  guarentee that the other 5
> programmers that changed the program after I wrote it will not have
> changed the program and set On to *Off somewhere.

Wilbert, I'm not going to argue this point.  If you work in a shop where
someone changes someone else's programs in this way, then you have
serious problems.  This is not a valid argument in any shop I work in.


> I think that the DO statement is not the right place to leave the
loop.
> The right place for me to leave the loop is the place where you meet a
> condition to leave that loop.  No chance of making mistakes.

That's your opinion, which I disagree with.  In fact, most of the time I
disagree with any sort of statement that says one syntactical construct
is "better" than another; there are always reasons to use different
techniques and in the end, it's all still Branch-On-Condition.

But since we're discussing opinions and you're proposing an absolute, we
should probably just leave it at that.

Joe