Re: DOW vs DOU

[John Carr <74711.77@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Booth 

Thats not the reason why I wouldn't use left hand indicators,   The real reason
is in  a real production shop where your jumping into a source member to find a
problem and you scan for *IN9 to find all the 90's (*IN90 - *IN99) and you
won't.    I'd cut off the hands of programmers (just kidding,... kinda) who use
the SETON or SETOFF instead of MOVE *ON, *OFF for that reason.  Left hand
indicators. are the same problem( how many 5,0 fields did you find in RPGIII
while looking for *IN50?).   I have gone as far as to do conditions (*INxx  IFEQ
*OFF) followed directly by an ENDIF  after a chain, etc.  just so the NEXT
programmer will find the indicator while scanning.

John P. Carr 
EdgeTech  


Booth wrote;
>Because using conditioning indicators on the left isn't politically correct
>these days, so it's 'chic' to code three lines of code where one would do.
>It's all part of a secret plot to make RPG more 'wordy' - I believe the
>ringleaders are closet COBOL programmers !    ;-)

>> boothm@earth.goddard.edu wrote:
>> Why does:
>>        90            LEAVE
>> lack full clarity?

>> 
>>> John Carr <74711.77@CompuServe.COM> said:
>>> 
>>> #     *IN90     IFEQ *ON
>>> #                    LEAVE
>>> #                    ENDIF
> 


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