Re: Long Constant Names

["Peter Dow" <maillist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Barbara, Kurt,

I'm probably all wet (it's raining here in SoCal! what happened to our
drought!?), but at one point in this thread I had the impression constants
were desired in a qualified data structure not so much for passing as a
read-only parameter, but to make the program more readable by having the
data structure name indicate the context for the constant, and the constant
subfield name would indicate the value.  As in Joe Lee's example:

DayOfWeek     DS                 Qualified Const
 Sunday                                 Const(1)
 Monday                                Const(2)
 Tuesday                               Const(3)
 Wednesday                          Const(4)
 Thursday                              Const(5)
 Friday                                   Const(6)
 Saturday                              Const(7)

 /Free
  Select;
   When  today = DayOfWeek.Sunday;
   When  today = DayOfWeek.Saturday;
  EndSl;


Peter Dow
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