Re: Any legitimate reason for 'UF A E' file defn when output only?

Copy/Paste Don't think.

I love the new free-form declarations because when copy/pasting this kind of definition it would be obvious and hopefully all but the laziest of programmers would have spotted it and made the adjustments. Most people can't remember what letter in which column means what and as a result there are a lot of cloned F-specs out there that make no sense.


Jon Paris

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On Jun 6, 2017, at 12:14 PM, Dan <dan27649@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 12:01 PM, James H. H. Lampert <
jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 6/6/17, 8:49 AM, Dan wrote:

So, my question here: Is there any legitimate reason that I'm missing why
you would want to force a write to storage for every single output
operation?

Synchronization with something else running concurrently in a different
job?

Nope.

Of course, there's always the possibility that the program evolved from
(or the line was simply cut and pasted from) something that DID need to
read and/or update the file, and nobody gave any thought to optimization.

This is what I'm thinking as well, but wanted to make sure I wasn't missing
some obscure technique.

- Dan
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