Agreed. I only do this only very small utility routines that I need to get done in 10 minutes or so.
-------------- Original message -------------- > In a message dated 7/13/2005 9:11:23 PM Pacific Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > SELECT FILE TO LIST > > LOOP > > READNEXT ID FROM LIST ELSE ID = @AM > > UNTIL ID = @AM DO > > REPEAT > > > > SELECT FILE > > LOOP > > READNEXT ID ELSE ID = @AM > > UNTIL ID = @AM DO > > REPEAT > > I agree that I don't see any extra overhead. > But why do you use an odd convention like ID = @AM ? > In this small loop it's probably apparent what you're doing but if the > distance between the LOOP and the UNTIL were large enough I dare say you'd be > adding > confusion to the mix for any future programmer. > > What I do is > DONE = @FALSE > LOOP > READNEXT ID ELSE DONE = @TRUE > UNTIL DONE DO REPEAT > > I think DONE is a more clear-cut variable usage rather than setting ID to @AM > personally. Just my opinion. > > Will Johnson > ------- > u2-users mailing list > u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
