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Luis - that's a good reason. It's really the only valid one I've ever heard, but it's a good one.

Thanks

Bob Cagle
IT Manager
Lynk, Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: RPG400-L [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Luis Rodriguez
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2015 10:14 AM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Subject: Re: Interactive logic-style question

On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 10:37 AM, Bob Cagle <bcagle@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

(p.s. It's a whole other discussion, but I don't understand why some
people are so opposed to using special characters (@, #, $) in
variable
names?)



Bob,

An issue could be that some characters "map" differently in other code pages. For example, your "#" must be translated to "Ñ" (a N with a tilde on
top) in our CCSID(284) (Spanish) system. Ugh...

Regards,


Luis Rodriguez


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