Re: infinite loop -- RPG400-L

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Subject: Re: infinite loop
From: qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 13:17:08 -0700
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rpg400-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

from: "Mark Allen"

dou IBMgetsacluehowtomarketthe400iseriesi5


Ouch... poor style...

Hard-coding something like that would force developers to updatetheir source regularly. Clearly this needs to be associated withconditional compiler directive so that the variable name can changevia some external source when a name change happened.


E.g., it's already out of date:

  dou IBMgetsacluehowtomarketthe400iseriesi5systemi

Seems like far too much effort... <g>

Tom Liotta

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