RE: Quote Question

Dan, 

Actually, your blank message arrived after this one. Go figure.

You make some good points. We don't want to give up creative solutions just
because other people haven't learned what we have yet. As you say, we have
to strive for balance. 

Here's a fogey test: have you ever used the halt indicators (H1-H9) or the
external indicators (U1-U9)? If so you're ready to move to Fogeyville.

Albert


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bale, Dan [SMTP:DBale@TFSA.Textron.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 2:17 PM
> To:   'RPG400-L@midrange.com'
> Subject:      RE: Quote Question
> 
> Now I know how those "blank" replies are mistakenly sent - Sorry for the
> previous "blank" reply to this message.
> 
> Albert,
> 
> You make a good point.  I have actually waffled between using a constant
> (like you and others have mentioned) and just using the doubled-up single
> quotes.  Obviously, I have pretty much committed to the doubled-up single
> quotes.
> 
> I think there is a balance, too, of making code understandable and
> "dumbing-down" to the point that RPG newbies can comprehend what's going
> on
> without having to ask what something in the code is doing.  I'm happy to
> answer questions like those, but I realize too that I might not be in this
> AS/400 shop six months from now.  Usually, I will document some
> non-typical
> code.  Just yesterday, in fact, someone asked me about my code to center
> text in a field, which uses nested BIFs to accomplish the task.  I
> modified
> my comments in the code to briefly touch on what was happening and
> referred
> the reader to the RPG Reference manual.  I'm thinking of collecting these
> sorts of coding examples into an EXAMPLES document that anybody can refer
> to
> in our shop here.
> 
> Hey, I suffered under band printers, too, and I'm NOT an old fogey!  At
> least I don't think under-40 is old fogey.  ;-)  Yeah, I remember being
> burned by the disappearing characters on printouts.  I even remember when
> you printed with an uppercase-only band, the OS wouldn't translate the
> lowercase to uppercase, and you'd get a mostly blank page with capital
> letters scattered over it.  We thought it was a major advance when IBM
> automatically handled that (S/36 intro?).
> 
> - Dan Bale
> 
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