No - I thought we were talking about creating a **NEW** counter variable in a large old program, call it xx1 do a search on xx1 no lines, then use it.
-----Original Message----- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Wjhonson Sent: 26 January 2012 20:59 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] Passing by Value Mecki you're not paying attention. You have an 8000 line program that uses a variable "A" You didn't write it. You need to find where that variable is assigned. You search for A ? That's not going to work. -----Original Message----- From: Mecki Foerthmann <mec...@gmx.net> To: u2-users <u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org> Sent: Thu, Jan 26, 2012 12:55 pm Subject: Re: [U2] Passing by Value No, you are completely wrong if you think that is only your world. ho in our game has the luxury working only with their own code? have been doing what you describe for over 25 years now and probably ost of the contributors here do the same thing for a living too and not ust since yesterday. nd I may have made that silly mistake once or twice as a junior but ince then it has become second nature. nd in those days we didn't have the luxury of 8000 line programs ecause the limit for any item was 32K and you were forced to use very hort variable names and couldn't even indent your code because spaces re characters too. n one shop I worked we used X, Y, Z etc. in 'primary' code and in nternal subroutines XX, YY, ZZ and so on for loop counters. personally prefer more meaningful names but can't do that always ecause I try to follow the naming conventions of the code I'm working on. Even the editor you use is irrelevant since I haven't seen one yet that oesn't have a search function. ust go to the top of the program and search for the variable name you ntend to use. f your search comes up negative you're safe to use it. imple! And OTOH how can you make 'rapid changes' to code if you don't nderstand what it is supposed to do and where the varibles come from? On 26/01/2012 20:16, Wjhonson wrote: Completely wrong :) You apparently have the luxury of only working on programs written by ourself. In my world, we are called upon to make rapid changes in programs written by wenty programmers over twenty years. You haven't specified *how* you ensure that your counters are unique, and by he way, the issue is not just counters, but any variable. -----Original Message----- From: Mecki Foerthmann<mec...@gmx.net> To: u2-users<u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org> Sent: Thu, Jan 26, 2012 12:13 pm Subject: Re: [U2] Passing by Value What has the length of the program to do with it? always abide to the rule that a for next counter in any internal ubroutine has to be unique. hat way even if the sub is called from within a for next loop the ounters never conflict. o it doesn't make any difference whatsoever if a program is 80 or 8000 ines long. BTW a program with 8000 lines is usually a sign of poor design. On 26/01/2012 19:02, Wjhonson wrote: You've never worked on programs that are 8000 lines long I take it :) -----Original Message----- From: John Hester<jhes...@momtex.com> To: U2 Users List<u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org> Sent: Thu, Jan 26, 2012 10:49 am Subject: Re: [U2] Passing by Value I like to use increasing roman numerals: FOR I = 1 TO COUNTER GOSUB PROCESS EXT I PROCESS: OR II = 1 TO COUNTER2 FOR III = 1 TO COUNTER3 FOR IV = 1 TO COUNTER4 NEXT IV NEXT III EXT II ETURN -----Original Message----- rom: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Wjhonson ent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 10:09 AM o: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org ubject: Re: [U2] Passing by Value n a related note, any clever ideas to localize a variable to a local ubroutine? For I = 1 to 10 GOSUB PROCESS ext I top 3000 Lines of code later.... 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