Re: Worthless comments

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

And then there's the guy here who converted the prototyped call into a
CALL, and moved all of the parameter passing calculations (CONST) into
separate MOVE or math statements.

Rob Berendt
--
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin



                    "Joep Beckeringh"
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Oh well.

We have many programs with a header comment, saying:

H*  Short description of the program

Using templates does have its disadvantages.

Joep Beckeringh


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Langston" <jlangston@celsinc.com>
To: <rpg400-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 2:13 AM
Subject: Worthless comments


> I just had to share this.  I came across this in a program:
>
> C** Load LDA fields into program fields
> C** Move contents of #STYLE into STYLE
> C** Move contents of #SDESC into SDESC
> C                     MOVEL#STYLE    STYLE
> C                     MOVEL#SDESC    SDESC
>
> Wow, I wondered what the MOVEL command did!
>
> Happy New Year all!
>
> Regards,
>
> Jim Langston



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