On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 09:54:12 -0400, you 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.
That's possibly written by someone who learned to code in COBOL, IE, totally self-documenting code. >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="" If coded like this, then you can do operations on REC without it failing with a "variable unassigned error". So, instead of branching on the READ ELSE, you branch later based on the value of REC<n>. -- Allen Egerton [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
