Re: Finding Indicators Used (was: RE: MOVEA -> EVAL)

["Peter Dow" <pcdow@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jim,

You apparently have the luxury of maintaining code that you have 100%
control over.

Imagine for a moment walking into a shop for the first time and being asked
to determine whether a particular indicator is being used in a 20,000 line
program. Are you going to scan for it? If you did, would you be 100%
confident of the results?

I'd trust the compiler listing<g>.

Regards,
Peter Dow
Dow Software Services, Inc.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Langston" <jimlangston@conexfreight.com>
To: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 2:01 PM
Subject: Re: Finding Indicators Used (was: RE: MOVEA -> EVAL)


> Er, you really expect me to do this?  You expect a programmer to have
> to compile your program and look at the generated code to be able to
> maintain it?
>
> What ever happened to self documenting code?  Structured Programming?
> Proper documentation?
>
> If it takes me 1 or even 5 extra lines of code to achieve all three of
> these, I'm for the extra code.
>
> "Real programmers don't eat quiche" is interesting reading, and a good
> chuckle, but I have never abhered to it!
>
> Regards,
>
> Jim Langston
>
> Me transmitte sursum, Caledoni!
>
>
> "Joe Giusto II (E-mail)" wrote:
> >
> > <snip>
> > "Why?  Maintainability.  I'm maintaining a huge program.  I want to use
a
> > new indicator or see where one is used, such as *IN42.  So what do I
do?"
> > <snip>
> >
> > You could just compile the program to QTEMP and look at the resulting
> > compile listing.  Go to the bottom and scroll up a few pages and you
will
> > see the indicators used and even what line numbers the are used on.
> > (although since the compiler started referencing statement number
instead of
> > actual source line number makes it kind of useless when trying figure
out
> > what "lines" they are used on, but that is another story)
> >
> > Joe Giusto II
> > Programmer/Analyst
> > Ritz Camera
> > Beltsville, MD
> > 301-419-3209 x347
> > 410-813-2812 x347
> >
> >  -----Original Message-----
> > From:   owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com]
On
> > Behalf Of Jim Langston
> > Sent:   Friday, June 15, 2001 7:10 PM
> > To:     RPG400-L@midrange.com
> > Subject:        Re: MOVEA -> EVAL
> >
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