Re: What bugs you about KLISTs in RPG IV?

[John Hall <jhall@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr. wrote:
> 
> Dan Bale wrote:
> >
> > Programmers are also able to throw KLISTs all over the source now (and, 
>boy, do
> > they ever!).  What happens more in maintenance?  A) Keys to a file 
>changing?  or
> > B) trying to find the KFLD fields of the KLIST that is associated with a 
>CHAIN
> > or a READE that is causing problems?  In all the environments I've been in, 
>99%
> > of the time it's "B".
> 
> You know, searching for a klist is only an F16 key away.
> 
> Or, if you use LPEX, ctrl-f.
> 
> Just about any editor can find the klist.  The problem is that you are
> suggesting that we remove the klist and scatter the information across
> the program instead of just one place.
> 
> Standard tenent in coding:  one op, one place, one change.
> 

KLISTs CAUSE the information to be scattered across the program.  Having
the variables passed to the chain opcode on the same line as the chain
is having it in one place.  The closest I can come to that with a KLIST
is to stick it in the code right before the chain.  If I need to chain
to the file in more than one section of the program then the chain is in
a completely different (scattered) place from its KLIST.  Also if I am
not using the exact field names in the KLIST or If I need to retrieve
records from a file where the values may be coming from more than one
source then I have to do moves into each field of the KLIST prior to the
chain.  So in order to properly check the code I MUST go to each chain
statement using the KLIST and then check the code before it to see what
fields are being moved into the KLIST.  If I am using the same fields in
the chain or in all the chains then they can still be defined in one
place.  

John Hall 


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