Mark,
I've used CURR (current) in the same way in many programs. I'm a
1983 vintage programmer who learned mostly from guys who had five years
seniority over me.
I've never done the untrusted READ thing, though.
- Chuck "Older Than I Look, But Starting to Look My Age" Barouch
Mark Johnson wrote:
>This ain't rocket science but it piques my curiosity.
>
>I've just acquired another client who's system contains an extrodinary use of
>the prefix THE in front of extracted values within a FOR/NEXT or LOOP and
>labels.
>
>READ CUST FROM blah, blah
>C=DCOUNT(CUST<15>,@VM)
>FOR I=1 TO C
> THE.SALESMAN=CUST<15,I>
>NEXT I
>
>I've seen this before but not to the extent on this client. The application
>appears older (mid 1980's) and certainly homegrown.
>I'm just wondering who comes up with this stuff.
>Also, was there ever any lack of faith in the READ statement when assigning
>the variable REC. I'm now seeing some of this:
>
>REC="" ; READ REC FROM FILE, ID ELSE REC=""
>
>
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