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That is sadly true.

Trevor Briggs
Analyst/Programmer
Lincare, Inc.
(727) 431-1246
TBriggs2@xxxxxxxxxxx

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[mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Barbara Morris
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 12:38 PM
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Subject: Re: Data structure overlay *next failure

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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