RE: field initializtion

And I understand that too, but as anyone who's written production code and
needed it done yesterday, those rules are rarely followed (at least at
first).  i would love to be able to take the time to follow them, trust me!
I cringe every time a bandaid goes out, especially when I have the pager.

But, when the time comes when I need to get something out the door or lose a
customer, I may need to know how to do it "half-*ssed".  Then later I can go
back and fix it.  That's all.

Brad

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eyers, Daniel [mailto:daniel.eyers@honeywell.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 2:54 PM
> To: 'JAVA400-L@midrange.com'
> Subject: RE: field initializtion
> 
> 
> 
> As we teach our RPGers Java, we make the parallel between the 
> try and catch
> blocks of Java and MONMSG in CL... The AS/400 (once again) 
> was (and is)
> several steps ahead of the competition....  The difference 
> (IMHO) that one
> can not implement the concept in RPG... It must be done in 
> the CL... While
> this may seem an esoteric difference, it encapsulates error 
> handling to a
> specific object.  IOW, one need not code two programs to get 
> the benefits of
> it's use.  
> 
> Joe's point was a good one, albeit his presentation was 
> passionate.  His
> point of using a proactive approach to coding is a good 
> methodology for any
> written code, Java or RPG...  Joe clearly understands that, 
> unlike what
> we've been taught, the development cycle is *not* a set of 
> discrete steps.
> It is a continuum and good code design begets great testing.  
> 
> dan
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stone, Brad V (TC) [mailto:bvstone@taylorcorp.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 3:08 PM
> To: 'JAVA400-L@midrange.com'
> Subject: RE: field initializtion
> 
> Whoa!  Chill, Joe.  The smiley means a joke.  I am aware of 
> try and catch.
> But they don't seem any better than MONMSG MSGID(CPF0000) in 
> most examples
> I've seen.  
> 
> Rough week of teaching java to RPGers?  (this smiley 
> intentionally left
> blank).  
> 
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