Re: Section naming conventions

On Wed, 25 Aug 1999 17:17:19 +0100, you wrote:

>I am intrigued to learn the various naming conventions experienced by those of
>you who not averse to using SECTIONS.
>
>
Hi Chris,

Apart from occasional attempts to try new naming conventions, none of
which ever seemed quite right, I've always used section names  in the
format A00-INITIALISATION / B00-PROCESS / Z00-CLOSE.

Sometimes it leads to some fairly convoluted section names -
C00-PROCESS-FILE
   (calls)
CA00-PROCESS-RECORD
  (calls)
CAA00-SET-UP-RECORD
  (calls)
CAAA-DO-SOMETHING
CAAB-DO-SOMETHING-ELSE

etc, etc

But at least you can always see what depends on what.  

I used to format sections as...

C00-PROCESS-FILE
        DO SOMETHING
        DO SOMETHING ELSE
C99-EXIT
        EXIT

but I now format them as...

C00-PROCESS-FILE
        DO SOMETHING
        DO SOMETHING ELSE
EXIT-SECTION
        EXIT

this has the advantage that if you use goto's to go to the end of the
section (these are the only ones I use), then you can copy code around
between sections without the risk of forgetting to change a goto in
the copied code, and accidentally disappearing off to somewhere you
didn't expect.

I've never thought that the formatting of the code in the IBM COBOL
manuals is very good.

---
Regards,

Pete Lawton

pete.lawton@bigfoot.com
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