RE: Postfixed characters ( was RPG, open source, and the web)

I always opt for this format because it seems easier (to me) to comment out
lines or to move them around.

myProc(
parm1
: parm2
: parm3
) ;

I know, I know. But it seems like every time I want to comment out
something in a list like this, it's the last one that needs to go. And so
the separator before it has to be removed and yada yada. YMMV but it's my
adopted style.

Dennis Lovelady
http://www.linkedin.com/in/dennislovelady
--
... Had this been an actual emergency, we would have fled in terror, and you
would not have been informed.

RE: prefixed commas . . are more readable , more understandable.

So in RPG, which do people think is more readable:

promptPrintForms(
rbcnppfUSER :
rbcnppfSSN :
rbcnppfSTDCD :
rbcnppfPKG :
rbcnppfID :
rbcnppfTXNO :
rbcnppfHCOR :
rbcnppfRESULT :
rbcnppfDO_ALL )

-or-

promptPrintForms
( rbcnppfUSER
: rbcnppfSSN
: rbcnppfSTDCD
: rbcnppfPKG
: rbcnppfID
: rbcnppfTXNO
: rbcnppfHCOR
: rbcnppfRESULT
: rbcnppfDO_ALL
)

This different format is not something that can be easily customized
inside your RDp editor,
but code-generators /and/ snippets might work well with this format.

The main thing is not to mix the two different styles within the same
section of code.
Make a logical break in the code if you are going to change the style.

- John Voris

from: Joe Pluta
subject: Re: RPG, open source, and the web

Henrik, . . .I must admit that I can see how the prefixed commas are

much more

readily identifiable than postfixed ones, and I'm pretty sure I
assimilate them better. . . .

Mihael, you may think I'm crazy bringing in LEAN psycologist into
programming, but just notise the "commas"
that is set in the front instead of the back in the above code - the

human

brain processes these commas in a
rate 3 times faster than if it was in the end of the statement if

the
code

is hirachical structured - in 10 statements
you cannot hardly measure the diffence - but programmers during

years
has to

read million of statements and suddenly
the time to mind- mapp code makes a difference.

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