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  3. July 2002

Re: Help with Compiler Errors

From: Jay Sulzmann <jsulzmann@HBS-INC.COM>
> I'm not sure I agree.  The word that scares me most is "always", as in
> "always bad programming.".

true, "always" is always scary, but take it as a shorthand for "almost
all the time, unless you have a compelling reason not to - like
management decree or such"

> We have a lot of files that include *ISO date,
> time, and timestamp items.  I don't know what I'd do without the PROCESS
> option DATETIME.

If you have no choice, the choice is easy. But this does not invalidate
the general principle that what you can express directly in the program
source is preferable to a compiler option.

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