Tony,
Thank you for clearing up the issue of using EQUATES. I was ready to pile
on you along with Les Hewkin. We use EQUATES and live by what they
describe. I have learned never to trust DICTS.
I always value your responses, since you where the head guy at Pick Systems
R&D. Keep writing to this list. thanks.
At 02:34 AM 8/12/2005 -0700, you wrote:
I wasn't clear about that at all, sorry. What I meant was that experienced
developers don't put a table of 50,000 invoice numbers into a single
attribute in the customer master file, or even reserve one atb for open
invoices and another one for closed, especially when either one of those
atb's can expend beyond a couple thousand values.
Equating a name to a dimensioned array element is absolutely standard and
IMO preferred practice - sorry if that was confused.
Tony
Les Hewkin wrote:
> Rubbish,sorry Tony but that's what I think. You say
> experienced developers and big companies don't use "EQU
> INVNO.TABLE TO CUST(40)". I beg to differ. What do you
> call experienced? does 20 years count??? and what do you
> call a big company??? we only have two boxes running
> universe, two HP boxes, one with 32 processors and four
> logical machines, with over 5k users. We define all our
> files this way. Our user base is growing all the time as
> the company grows and our apps just keep on working.
>
> Les.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Gravagno
> That construct that you
> describe "EQU INVNO.TABLE TO CUST(40)" is something that
> experienced developers simply don't use anymore...
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