Re: Coding in Column 1

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Iterations make sense to me.  Working with code that has 20 years of 
changes, all dutifully commented and annotated, swells program source to 
spaghetti monsters.



On 9/18/2015 2:31 PM, Vernon Hamberg wrote:
> Kurt
>
> This was a question of mine when I first looked at 9.5 - we use this
> approach, and it's been around for decades.
>
> Fortunately, there's no need to change the old stuff - this new format
> is for new code only.
>
> So if we use the 1+ way of coding, we'll need new ways (maybe old in
> other languages) to indicate change, if we do it in the code. Other
> languages take advantage of diffs between iterations, so no need for
> marking in code itself.
>
> To mark changes in CL has required some kind of START and END comments
> with a change ID, perhaps.
>
> A comment could be placed to the right for this kind of thing.
>
> Other ideas? I know I don't have the market covered here.
>
> Cheers
> Vern