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  3. March 2008

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

Buck wrote:
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.

In the context of the procedure, the variable is completely self explainitory.

Quite often we have to open up multiple files, so just using the file name with the suffix 'open' indicates that this indicates if the file has been opened or not.

david



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