RE: More on RPG style

["Dennis Lovelady" <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > chain ItemNo ItemMaster;
> > if not %found;
> >    Valid = *on;
> > endif;
> >
> > . . . 100 lines of code . . .
> >
> > if Valid;
> >    // use item
> > endif;
>
> Yet, you still got it wrong.  Because clearly the item is valid if it
> is
> found in the ItemMaster.  Not that your basic premise is bad; it's just

So you're familiar with this item addition program, and you question its
logic?  :)  It's not so clear, if you don't know what's happening.  If I
want to add an item with a preassigned number, does it not make sense for me
to check the item master to make sure it doesn't already exist?  And if it
doesn't, isn't the addition then valid?

I have no problem with Scott's logic, maybe because I have no no
presumptions about what it might be doing.

Dennis Lovelady
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