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  3. March 2008

Re: RPG-ILE Service Pgm and Opening/Closing Files

David Gibbs wrote:

if not %open(FILE);
open FILE;
FILEopen = *on;
endif;

// do stuff

if FILEopen;
close FILE;
endif;

If the variable were called fileOpenedByThisProc rather than FILEOpen, I bet people would understand the intent faster. The original programmer _knows_ the intent, and a brief variable name is all that is required to jog his memory, but the rest of us can find more of a hint from the longer name.
--buck

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