Re: Defining DS to retrieve variable length data from API

["Rory Hewitt" <roryhewitt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Barbara,

I guess I get that. I typically make some boo-boo's early on, but once a
structure is defined, I don't touch it any more...

Rory


On 6/29/07, Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Rory Hewitt wrote:
> > I understand the first point (even though I'd like to think my naming is
> > sufficiently understandable that it's pretty easy to correlate field
> names
> > to the textual names in the documentation), but as for skipping
> meaningless
> > fields, I just don't bother naming them, so they're effectively skipped
> > anyway...
> >
>
> I meant that it's easier to correlate the exact RPG position to the
> documented position.  Even if your names are identical to the names in
> the documentation, say Length_of_message_returned, it can be difficult
> for a human to verify that a particular subfield is at the right
> position if all the subfields just follow each other.  (Maybe it's just
> me, since I sometimes can't even add 2 and 3 and get 6, but I find it
> difficult to add up the lengths of more than about ten subfields before
> I start to waver.)