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Dave Shaw wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joel Fritz <JFritz@sharperimage.com> > > >I like the free form idea, but I wouldn't mind being protected from > >terseness abuse. > > Isn't that what COBOL is for? <grin, duck, and run> > If the field is the current outstanding balance for a customer, in RPG it would be something like this: CMARBL or ARCSBL or ARBAL or... In COBOL it *SHOULD* be: outstanding-balance of current-amounts of customer-record but alas, in many COBOLS it turns out to be: curr-bal of cust-rec -or, worse yet- cmarbl Of course it could be ccb in ANY language, C, RPG, COBOL, Pascal, PL/I, and then there is Basic: b. No language has a lock on terseness. The IBM midrange systems forced it with 6 characters. 10 is better, but still no good. The SQL DDL only permitted 18, still better, but not good. DB2 V6 gives us 30. So what's my point? You can't be protected from terseness abuse by any language or data base. You CAN be forced into it by either. The 400 comes from a long history of terseness. It's not going to change based on any changes in the RPG compilers. -- =========================================================== R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr. -- IBM Certified AS/400 Professional System Administrator -- IBM Certified AS/400 Professional Network Administrator "The sum of all human knowledge is a fixed constant. It's the population that keeps growing!" * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * This is the RPG/400 Discussion Mailing List! To submit a new * * message, send your mail to "RPG400-L@midrange.com". To unsubscribe * * from this list send email to MAJORDOMO@midrange.com and specify * * 'unsubscribe RPG400-L' in the body of your message. Questions should * * be directed to the list owner / operator: david@midrange.com * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
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