This sounds exactly like some programs I was forced to work on at one time that were written in a variant of Business Basic.
There's good BASIC, and there's BAD BASIC. This was very bad BAD BASIC. The value of part of a string in a file was used to determine what was in the rest of the string, and where it was. Very, very ugly. COBOL redefines sound exactly like that, and if so, I stand by my condemnation. yuck. Jared On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 18:29, Jonathan Gennick wrote: > Wednesday, November 26, 2003, 7:44:25 PM, Jared Still ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > JS> Oh, so *that's* what a cobol redefine is. > > JS> How incredibly ugly. Must have been someone's > JS> crutch for poor (or no) design. > > No, no, no. REDEFINE is very powerful. It's part of the > COBOL magic. > > Best regards, > > Jonathan Gennick --- Brighten the corner where you are > http://Gennick.com * 906.387.1698 * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Join the Oracle-article list and receive one > article on Oracle technologies per month by > email. To join, visit http://four.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/oracle-article, > or send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and > include the word "subscribe" in either the subject or body. > > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net > -- > Author: Jonathan Gennick > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com > San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). > -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Jared Still INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
