Evaluating opinions (was Re: "compile" vs."tokenize"(wasRe:Password Problem))

[Kenneth Brody]

"Jay R. Ashworth" wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 04:09:06PM -0400, John Esak wrote:
> > being worse than useless... and etc. They are not problems you encounter by
> > mis-using the GETNEXT command and then complaining that _it_ is broken...
> 
> If the documentation does not say "you can't do this while changing
> the key field of the record that you looked up, and expect it to work
> right", then *I am not misusing it*.
[...]

If you change the major key field of the index you are using to step
through the file, what would you expect GETNEXT to do?  Isn't the "next"
record the one following the current record?  If I change the key from
SMITH to BRODY, shouldn't the "next" record be the one that follows BRODY?

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