In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 01/17/2006
at 05:27 PM, Rob Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Maybe not - but I think it is good practice
We'll have to agree to disagree; it is both inefficient and confusing.
>Maybe not - but I think it is good practice - it protects you from
>problems if you happen to ADDRESS another environment when you next
>change the REXX exec.
It exposes you to the risk of finger checks on text that need not be
there at all. IMHO that is a more likely problem than the other.
>but in larger REXX execs you can easily shoot
>yourself in the foot.
Indeed, and adding extraneous commands is one more exposure to
shooting yourself in the foot.
>I also think that it makes the code easier on the eye and easier to
>maintain.
I don't see how cluttering yp the code makes it easier on the eye, and
the practice actually makes the code harder to maintain.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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