John
>If a programmers major concern is using
>SCAN ... ENDSCAN versus DO WHILE NOT EOF() ... LOOP
>then they better rethink their priorities (at the
>same time they are rereading what ADO is ).
>Gene,
>A progressive thinker!!! Oh what will I do!!
Progressive? With FP2.0 we moved *away* from DO WHILE loops to SCAN for database iterations, because SCAN was optimised and worked better. Now we "progress" back to DO WHILE loops using ADO.
You will understand why some FP people might have an issue with this- if ADO is based on FP, then it is *very* fair to wonder why we are reverting to constructs abandoned in FP years ago.
Finally, If you could just reassure me that ADO allows expressions and functions in the DO WHILE statement, as well as memory/object scatters etc that make VFP database development so productive, then that would be a big help.
Regards
JR
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
