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Re: Alternatives to MOVEL - just curious

This does lead to Jon's suggestion of a subprocedure, well-named.

The other point from Jon is why I didn't take time to work out exactly WHAT was being moved WHERE in some code when making changes - no time to really do that, so in they stay!

Vern

On 12/9/2013 1:16 PM, John Yeung wrote:
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"As grotchy as it is, MOVEL at least hinted that the goal was to extract
some (or all) of one field."

The only hint it gave Buck was that whenever you saw a MOVE
of _any_ flavor the only thing you knew for sure was that some
data moved somewhere.
I think Buck was getting at the fact that seeing MOVE is more of a
hint than seeing DIV, when the ultimate purpose is extracting a
portion of another field. Especially if the variables are already
named suggestively.

I don't think anyone is arguing that MOVE* is inherently self-documenting.

John


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