Re: Long names

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I love this long variable name feature. I was REALLY frustrated with
the field name lengths in V3R2, and was very grateful to have the longer

ones in V3R7. Even now, 11 years later, I can remember how excited I
was to finally let go of that awful 10 character limit.
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I love it too. You can actually read code and know what the hell is
going on but you ought to hear the howling from the other programmers I
work with.

Anything over 6 characters is an imposition from hell!!

I name a service program procedure STGF_Tokenize but all the screaming.
They want something like tkn so they don't have to type the extra
characters.

Try to explain you need to identify where a procedure comes from and
that you need to know what the procedure does but no, we just don't want
to type more than 6 characters. That's too much work.

If you can get them to write something in free format, you can't even
get them to indent their code. Too much work to hit the space bar twice.
My one programmer says that indenting code is a style issue and he
doesn't want to be bothered!!

My bitch of the day. We are getting a new manager but I doubt anything
will change in that respect.

I liked Roger Pence's article in this month's System I News on this
issue.