Forum Post: RE: Is the Pause statement really as useless as it seems?

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I didn't say that it made sense. The PAUSE statement is aware of when it is running in a headless environment (appserver agent, batch, etc.) and doesn't require a window in those cases. Long ago someone decided that the user (in environments where there is a user) should be able to interrupt a PAUSE. That's why it makes a window visible if there isn't a suitable window already visible. This may not have been the best design but we are loathe to change such long-existing behaviors because we have historically been bitten in the ass when we do.

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