Re: Good places to use "The Cycle" in today's RPG was->Re: FW: Niftiest thing(s) you have done in RPG ILE or /FREE -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: Good places to use "The Cycle" in today's RPG was->Re: FW: Niftiest thing(s) you have done in RPG ILE or /FREE
From: James Lampert <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:09:18 -0800
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GUY_HENZA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Wow, just back from lunch and so many posts. I consider ITER and LEAVE to
be backwards from the way I think. I condition on what I want to do not on
what I don't want to do.

But what if "what you want to do" is leave the loop early, and the loop would only run its course in cases where "what you don't want" happens?

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