RE: Renaming Fields in the D specs: why?

["Reeve Fritchman" <reeve@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom, you had to ask!  The lurkers will be coming out of the woodwork for
sure.
My answer: if it's the right tool for the job, use it.  There is no reason
to avoid taking advantage of the logic cycle, and there's no reason you
can't combine exception detail output and "Lx" logic (except it might look
schizophrenic) if you need to.  Anybody doing moderately sophisticated
subfile or RPG-CGI programming has likely written control break logic (to
create screen totals), so there shouldn't be any allure.
There is no reason to stick with the logic cycle, either.  The key is
understanding both the logic cycle and the programming requirement well
enough to choose the best option for the job.
Let's see how many "Indicators are bad" knee-jerk responses you get...


-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of Tom Daly
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 2:48 PM
To: 'rpg400-l@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: Renaming Fields in the D specs: why?

A bit off subject maybe....

I'm curious as to how many people would code their own control breaks versus
use the cycle.

I'd use the cycle, myself.  It's just a feature of the language and is very
reliable.


Tom

 |  -----Original Message-----
 |  From: Reeve Fritchman [mailto:reeve@ltl400.com]
 |  Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 11:10
 |  To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
 |  Subject: Renaming Fields in the D specs: why?
 |
 |
 |  Troy, I've been following this thread with some interest
 |  and I'd like to
 |  push your gray cells around a bit.
 |
 |  There isn't any other mechanism for selectively changing
 |  input field names.
 |  I-specs aren't going away as long as there is one person on
 |  the planet using
 |  RPG cycle control breaks (and I'll get flamed if I make a
 |  joke about the
 |  last person still using matching record, so I won't).  I'm
 |  not sure it's


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