Re: Finding Indicators Used (was: RE: MOVEA -> EVAL)

Comments at bottom.

Gary Guthrie


> Jim Langston wrote:
> 
> > Er, you really expect me to do this?  You expect a programmer to have
> > to compile your program and look at the generated code to be able to
> > maintain it?
> >
> > What ever happened to self documenting code?  Structured Programming?
> > Proper documentation?
> >
> > If it takes me 1 or even 5 extra lines of code to achieve all three of
> > these, I'm for the extra code.



Njal Fisketjon wrote:
> 
> Would you risk your reputation as a programmer when making changes to a
> program you didn't write, by not compiling it first?
> 
> Adding an indicator, and depending on the documentation?
> 
> I wouldn't, and IMO a compile is a small "price to pay" to find a free 
>indicator
> in and old program I haven't written.


With respect to trusting comments, you are absolutely right, Njal! With
respect to a compile - you don't even have to generate an object. Simply
specify Option(*NoGen) on the create command and no executable is
created, but a listing you can examine is!

Gary Guthrie
Technical Editor, NEWS/400 magazine
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