RE: Coding in Column 1

We do purge old comments from the source when it gets too unwieldy.

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From: RPG400-L [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Booth Martin
Sent: Friday, September 18, 2015 3:45 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Subject: Re: Coding in Column 1

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

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