RE: Footer records in subfile display - FIXED

[qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Tom Liotta)]

rpg400-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   5. Re: Footer records in subfile display - FIXED (Steve Landess)
>
>> Douglas W. Palme wrote:
>> This has got to be the most idiotic mistake I have made in months and I
>> apologize to everyone for wasting your time.  I sincerely apologize and I
>> mean that.
>
>Doug -
>It happens to all of us...
>
>One time I spent almost 8 hours debugging a program and the problem was that 
>I had overlooked a commented-out line of code - since that time (in 1983), I 
>ALWAYS put something like ***@@@ on lines that I comment out to make them 
>stand out!

When I can, I like to go a step beyond that. I really hate comments that 
clutter code for years (decades!) after the change becomes moot. When I can get 
away with it, I'll remove all such comments if I'm effectively creating a new 
version of a program. The fact that a variable was increased from 3-digits to 
7-digits in 1992 has little relevance in 2005 for a lot of programs. Likewise, 
a comment about moving a SETON from after an EXFMT to before the EXFMT just 
doesn't add to the useful sense of the program five years later.

Code archives can always be kept as needed.

Tom Liotta

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