RE: Strange behavior w/%editc() -- RPG400-L

Okay, you guys are cracking me up now. I'm going to try to spin off a
bunch of lines of code... of course I use CodeStudio exclusively and
compile directly on my 400 so I never look at spooled compiler listing
and I have lost the SEU chromosome, and I'm working on loosing the PDM
chromosome (But PDM is a good tool!)

Bob Cozzi
cozzi@rpgiv.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com]
On
> Behalf Of Joel Fritz
> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 11:41 AM
> To: 'rpg400-l@midrange.com'
> Subject: RE: Strange behavior w/%editc()
>
> Code400 brings us up to the level of Turbo Pascal in the late
> eighties--almost.  Don't get me wrong, I use it almost exclusively now
in
> spite of the .75-1.5 crashes per day and the strange behavior of the
> debugger (it only succeeds in loading the program about half the
time.)  Of
> course things could be worse if I weren't using the current version
with the
> latest service pack.  The only person I work with who's willing to try
it is
> a contractor who used it before on another job.  I did convince one
other
> person to load it, but he's still recovering from being forced to
write
> RPGIV code in mixed case.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bob Cozzi (RPGIV) [mailto:cozzi@rpgiv.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 7:16 AM
> > To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
> > Subject: RE: Strange behavior w/%editc()
> >
> >
> > Martin,
> >
> >
> > > Not so awesome if it's in your coding standards ;-) We tend
> > to use the
> > > PREFIX keword to add an identifier to file fields which does help
a
> > lot.
> > > Another thing that helps (me, at least) is defining program
> > fields in
> > > mixed case and file/external fields kept in upper case. Admittedly
> > it's a
> > > bit more effort to do specific case coding so I wrote a program
(as
> > you
> > > do) to tidy up the code to match the our standards.
> >
> >
> > And of course the reason we need to do this is because we
> > have a crappy
> > development environment. After all, we all grew up writing
> > code in SEU,
> > and most people still use it today. In my latest survey, more than
77%
> > use SEU/PDM exclusively, while another 11% use it as their
> > primary tool
> > but also use either CodeStudio or Code/400. Only 3 percent have
weaned
> > themselves off SEU/PDM.
> >
> > Which goes to show you, even after a decade of GUI-based RPG editors
> > such as CODE/400 and CodeStudio being available, often for free or
> > nearly free, there is still no compelling incentive to leave the
> > high-speed keypunching enablement that SEU provides. And that's a
darn
> > shame. :(
> >
> > Bob Cozzi
> >
> >
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> >
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