Re: trouble with divide? -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: trouble with divide?
From: Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:23:28 -0600
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On 12/9/2011 4:40 PM, Barbara Morris wrote:

Think again ... more than one shop had code that systematically
defined character variables like this.
C *LIKE DEFINE *INLR NAME +9

One of the primary reasons I don't miss mechanical code modification. No matter how bizarre a given coding technique might be, someone uses it. I like the solution of giving them a converter to fix really recalcitrant code, though. That makes a lot of sense.

Joe

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