RE: Standards question: What is your feeling about %found & %eofvs. %found(file) & %eof(file) ?

From: jacobus1968@xxxxxxxxxxx
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Standards question: What is your feeling about %found & %eofvs. %found(file) & %eof(file) ?
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 10:26:09 +0200


I think the difference is that I see two consecutive statements (chain/read and if %found / %eof) as one atomic expression. If these are separated then it's best to qualify to avoid any ambiguaty. Point is, in most cases a chain/read is directly followed by %found/%eof.

Anyway... this is my last post on the subject; there much more important issues.

Subject: RE: Standards question: What is your feeling about %found & %eofvs. %found(file) & %eof(file) ?
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 15:30:44 +0100
From: Martin.Hillier@xxxxxxxxxx
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx

Hi John,

I always try to get a line of code to be self explanitory. %EOF doesnt do this - whereas %EOF(file) does

I just know some swine will enter another file read just before my %EOF test at some point in the future

Martin

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Subject: Re: Standards question: What is your feeling about %found &
%eofvs. %found(file) & %eof(file) ?


john e wrote:

I always try to create readable (or "self documenting") code and always use %eof instead of %eof(name), because IMO this is much more readable. It is applying the priniciple of DRY (dont repeat yourself).

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