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  3. April 2003

Re: Free Form RPG Opinions Wanted

Joe,

>Because the free programmers think it's ugly, so you should change your
>programming style.  That's the gist of the argument on this point.

That's not it at all.  It is because I can't tell by looking at a MOVE statement
what it does, without knowing the attributes of the factors.  Sure I know
probably thousands of fields names in my databases and their sizes, but one
should not have to in order to know what the code is doing.

It is not ugly.  It is error-prone during maintenance, especially as field sizes
change.

Doug

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