Re: FOR loop limit -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: FOR loop limit
From: Jon Paris <Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:46:42 -0500
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On 29-Jan-09, at 3:45 PM, Simon Coulther wrote:

Which will break when the step is not a whole divisor of the limit.
It's never a good idea to use an equality test in a loop. If your
code happens to skip over the limit the equality test will never be
true and your loop will not terminate.

I knew there was a good reason why I always code mine with > - but I'm just too old to have remembered why ;-)

Jon Paris

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