RE: Footer records in subfile display

Me, I use WDSC and my comments automatically appear in a different color.

Have a dinosaur here that won't give up SEU.  Wasted 45 minutes in a CL 
program trying to figure it out.  I pulled it up in WDSC and immediately 
saw that what he thought was being executed, was really a comment.
/*                 +
                   +
MYCLCMD            +
MYOTHERCMD         +
                   +
*/

He saw the problem solved.  Still hasn't sunk in how the right tool 
helped.

Rob Berendt
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rpg400-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   5. Re: Footer records in subfile display - FIXED (Steve Landess)
>
>> Douglas W. Palme wrote:
>> This has got to be the most idiotic mistake I have made in months and I
>> apologize to everyone for wasting your time.  I sincerely apologize and 
I
>> mean that.
>
>Doug -
>It happens to all of us...
>
>One time I spent almost 8 hours debugging a program and the problem was 
that 
>I had overlooked a commented-out line of code - since that time (in 
1983), I 
>ALWAYS put something like ***@@@ on lines that I comment out to make them 

>stand out!

When I can, I like to go a step beyond that. I really hate comments that 
clutter code for years (decades!) after the change becomes moot. When I 
can get away with it, I'll remove all such comments if I'm effectively 
creating a new version of a program. The fact that a variable was 
increased from 3-digits to 7-digits in 1992 has little relevance in 2005 
for a lot of programs. Likewise, a comment about moving a SETON from after 
an EXFMT to before the EXFMT just doesn't add to the useful sense of the 
program five years later.

Code archives can always be kept as needed.

Tom Liotta

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