Re: Indicator Coding Technique

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Personally I would prefer seeing the new standards point towards how to 
eliminate the need for the indicators.  Yes, some are needed, but if you 
are having to set off lots of indicators in your RPG code maybe you are 
asking the dds to do things that don't need doing, or can be done 
differently?

I guess I am saying that this issue sounds like you are preparing to 
fight the last war?

Alan Shore wrote:
> There is a problem with your idea of, for example, if indicator 1 needs to
> be switched on, the code would be
>             eval FunctionKey  =  '1000000000000000000'
> Now what do you do to switch indicator 3 on
>             eval FunctionKey  =  '1010000000000000000'
> but what happens if indicator 1 does NOT need to be switched on prior to
> indicator 3.
>
> Like I said, the permutations and combinations of what is to be swithced on
> with what is already set, it can become ridiculous.
> e.g.
> if FunctionKey  =  '1000000000000000000'
> eval FunctionKey  =  '1010000000000000000'
> else
> if FunctionKey  =  '0000000000000000000'
> eval FunctionKey  =  '0010000000000000000'
> else
> etc.
> etc.
>
>
> Alan Shore
>
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