Looks like I've been wasting odd lines of code for years then.
I could have *sworn* I've used that lazy way out in the odd noddy code I've written in the past. Let me see now ... was it in PLM/86?
Mind you, for readability, I'd still rather see something more meaningful, like:
lnNumFiles = ALEN(laFiles,1)
For I = 1 to lnNumFiles ...
>I doubt it's necessary or appropriate in any language.
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>>Hmmm, that's interesting. I've never bothered to test that. Is it not true that, at least in other languages, you could use code like that to (lazily) short-circuit the loop to get out of it?
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>>Anyway, as a general rule, I always do the func once and store to a var.
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