RE: Named Indicators...

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Having 12 fingers on each hand and corresponding tattoos from a former life,
I find *INKX very easy. <g>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gwecnal@aol.com [mailto:Gwecnal@aol.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 1999 8:57 AM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Named Indicators...
> 
> 
> In a message dated 99-08-18 11:12:14 EDT, you write:
> 
> > Personally (and this is my opinion, many people have already told
> >  me I was nuts)  I prefer to see *INKC or *INKE used instead of
> >  *IN03/*IN05, and I also prefer to see *INKC over a "named 
> indicator".
> 
> And I, just as personally, hate to see the ink* indicators.  Our shop 
> standard is that *in01-*in24 are reserved for function keys 
> and if you see 
> one you know what it means. Boy do I dislike seeing *inkj and 
> wondering what 
> was pressed (<counting on fingers> a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j - 10 - 
> he pressed F10. 
> No, wait.  'i' does not count. Start over a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,j  
> - 9 - he pressed 
> F9.  Wow.  Sure am glad the programmer did not just set *in09 
> on when the 
> user pressed F9.  That would be way hard.
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