Re: Cycle programs and control level breaks

["James H H Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Chris Pando" <chris.pando@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Explicit Logic = Documentation
> Implicit Logic = magic
I guess it's time to go back to explicitly transferring 
blocks of raw bytes from file buffers into variables, 
then. After all, that's implicit. And of course, that also 
means doing away with externally-described files, since 
their meta-data is implicit, whether you're using RPG or 
C.
Regardless of whether they use The Cycle, programmers who 
can't instantly recognize that it's in use (either by the 
presence of a primary file, or by the presence of logic to 
turn on LR in response to some indication that it's "time 
to say 'Good Night, Gracie'") have no business coding in 
RPG, any more than programmers who don't know about case 
sensitivity have any business coding in C or Java.
--
JHHL