Re: RPG Cycle (was Multi-Occurring DS)

[James Lampert <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Armbruster, Tom wrote:

> Correct.  But that would probably be a service or update program
> intended to conditionally affect all of the records in a file.

Quite true. Which is the main purpose for which I write "conventional" 
(i.e., controlled by a primary file) Cycle programs. Even the one or two 
Cycle programs I've written that actually produced a report in a spool 
file (as opposed to either running interactively or just quietly fixing 
funky data) would fall into that category.

And of course, if you use The Cycle UNconventionally, then all the 
implicit I/O, matching, control breaks, and so forth become irrelevant, 
and you're left with the entire main enclosed in a big "do until told to 
stop" loop.