Allen wrote: "Who in the world would go to all the trouble of taking a standard command and making it non-standard for no possible purpose other that to obfuscate the program???!!....Gaaa!!!!!"
Hopefully no one! But....... Since I have not seen the code, I will make the assumption that the developer was trying to make things easier not harder. First the 'lit' keyword on the equate statement is very powerful, and I would admit it could be used in the wrong way. Yet if app has some core routines that take several arguments to control its actions then an equated statement is much easier to remember then what flags have to be set to get the specific action from the routine. Plus, if in the future the code is changed to have an additional argument, then it only has to be changed in the include file, not each program. Mike P.S. for those outside the States where English is not your primary language, you could really mess with people's heads by creating equates for the commands. i.e EQU imprimer LIT "PRINT" ( note I used a English to French converter, so sorry if I insulted anyone ) ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
