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Maybe midrange.com should be renamed to kinkeyIBMIcodes.com - most
discussinons
in here is actually how to create code nobody else will understand - and
then defending it!


On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 6/20/2013 8:20 AM, Briggs, Trevor (TBriggs2) wrote:

If I found that a predecessor had coded a ds like that with a mixture of
relatively-positioned and specifically-positioned subfields, I would
feel obliged to hunt them down and put them out of their misery! It
would be SO easy to misinterpret that code. :-)


Humbly beg pardon for writing that.

We might imagine that such horritude as I wrote would only ever be
written by someone who has to devise sneaky testcases for the compiler.

But we would be wrong. I have seen real customer code that is at least
as icky as my little example.

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