On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 12:24:03 -0600, McKown, John wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock >> Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 12:01 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Controlling COBOL DDs named SYSOUT > ><snip> > >> >> Huh? What have you got against judicious use of DISPLAY >> so that you want to call the programmer an idiot? > >Judicious use is, barely, tolerable to me (see below). About all that I >consider to be judicious is the writing of "statistics" such as "records >read", "records deleted", "records updated", "new records written", >although I've never noticed anybody actually using that information for >anything.
What about error messages to be issued when the program terminates abnormally? IMO, when a program encounters an error condition that prevents it from continuing, a good programmer will produce a nice descriptive message. How do _you_ think that it should be written? -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
