Named indicators (was DOW vs DOU)

["James W. Kilgore" <qappdsn@xxxxxxx>]

Neil Palmer wrote:
> 
> Believe the ability to define your own named indicators has been
> announced for V4 - although it may be V4R2 - still, 1998.
> 
> On Sun, 25 May 1997 boothm@earth.goddard.edu wrote:
> 
> > You just hit a sore spot with me   -  I agree completely with you,
> > <snip>
> >  But if we could declare our indicators in the new D specs, and their 
>purpose,
> > then we could use them in the same exact fashion as 01 through 99 in place 
>of *INxx.
> >
> > Something like:
> >
> > D  CRok           I           IND           (IND is for "logical
> > INDicator") D* CRok = *ON = the indicator for "customer's CRedit is ok"
> >
> > See what I mean?  Of course that's easy to duplicate but 50 programmers
> > will each have their own version.
> >
We have been using variables for the same purpose.  Having named
indicators would save some memory, but I'm not sure that CRok IFEQ *ON
adds more clarity than  CRok IFEQ 'Y'
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