Re: [U2] BASIC code - upper, lower, CamelCase, what say you?

2013-12-23 Thread David A. Green
BASIC code - upper, lower, CamelCase, what say you? First off - Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all. I'm starting to write a lot of new BASIC (Universe 11.1) subroutines for our DesignBais application, and since I'll be starting with a blank code template instead of modifying

Re: [U2] BASIC code - upper, lower, CamelCase, what say you?

2013-12-23 Thread Bruce Decker
I hereby licensing it GPL. Happy copylefting. -BD On 12/23/2013 3:36 PM, Horn, John wrote: Bruce Decker wrote: You know the programmer is poser if he writes GOTO as goTo :-) I love it! Can I steal it? It needs to be on a t-shirt or something - jmh CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-ma

Re: [U2] BASIC code - upper, lower, CamelCase, what say you?

2013-12-23 Thread Horn, John
Bruce Decker wrote: > You know the programmer is poser if he writes GOTO as goTo :-) I love it! Can I steal it? It needs to be on a t-shirt or something - jmh CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may

Re: [U2] BASIC code - upper, lower, CamelCase, what say you?

2013-12-23 Thread Doug Averch
[ad] Just a heads up for those interesting in more granularity in a search. We have added an extension to the search Eclipse engine for XLr8Editor. This UniBasic search tab allows you to search for variables, external subroutines, internal subroutines, and functions. We wrote this to easily find

Re: [U2] BASIC code - upper, lower, CamelCase, what say you?

2013-12-23 Thread Doug Averch
[ad] Just a heads up for those interesting in more granularity in a search. We have added an extension to the search Eclipse engine for XLr8Editor. This UniBasic search tab allows you to search for variables, external subroutines, internal subroutines, and functions. We wrote this to easily find

Re: [U2] BASIC code - upper, lower, CamelCase, what say you?

2013-12-23 Thread Bobby Worley
Thanks for all the replies and opinions on mixed case basic coding. A little more info on my personal work configuration: - we are on Universe 11.1 / IBM AIX / Accuterm - I use Rocket BDT for 95% of my coding - - I have a home grown search tool that goes through all our source files but, I looke

Re: [U2] BASIC code - upper, lower, CamelCase, what say you?

2013-12-23 Thread Wols Lists
On 22/12/13 22:39, Peter Cheney wrote: > My colleague has recently introduced me to the joys of Emacs but am > struggling to un-learn vi. http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ViperMode I thought I remembered something like this ... Wol (a dinosaur who wishes he still had the Sheffield EDitor :-)

Re: [U2] BASIC code - upper, lower, CamelCase, what say you?

2013-12-22 Thread Doug Averch
Hi Peter: When millions of programmers are using a tool like Eclipse, there is always help on the internet. Here is what I found: 1) Eclipse for Linux instructions: https://developer.atlassian.com/display/DOCS/Set+Up+the+Eclipse+IDE+for+Linux a) The current release is Kepler b) You d

Re: [U2] BASIC code - upper, lower, CamelCase, what say you?

2013-12-22 Thread Peter Cheney
on behalf of Doug Averch Sent: Sunday, 22 December 2013 12:23 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] BASIC code - upper, lower, CamelCase, what say you? "BFIND" are your really serious. Is this one of those, we must us only use UniBasic code? Because if it is, we U2 programmers are

Re: [U2] BASIC code - upper, lower, CamelCase, what say you?

2013-12-21 Thread Brian Leach
ds, >> Doug >> www.u2logic.com >> "Industrial strength tools for U2 programmers and shops" >> >> >>> On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 6:08 AM, Symeon Breen wrote: >>> >>> Not this one again .... >>> >>> >>

Re: [U2] BASIC code - upper, lower, CamelCase, what say you?

2013-12-21 Thread Brian Leach
-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org >> [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bobby Worley >> Sent: 20 December 2013 19:02 >> To: U2 Users List >> Subject: [U2] BASIC code - upper, lower, CamelCase, what say you? >> >> First off - Merry Christmas and

Re: [U2] BASIC code - upper, lower, CamelCase, what say you?

2013-12-21 Thread Doug Averch
ssage- > From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org > [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bobby Worley > Sent: 20 December 2013 19:02 > To: U2 Users List > Subject: [U2] BASIC code - upper, lower, CamelCase, what say you? > > First off - Merry Christmas and Happy Ne

Re: [U2] BASIC code - upper, lower, CamelCase, what say you?

2013-12-21 Thread Symeon Breen
Not this one again -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bobby Worley Sent: 20 December 2013 19:02 To: U2 Users List Subject: [U2] BASIC code - upper, lower, CamelCase, what say you? First off

Re: [U2] BASIC code - upper, lower, CamelCase, what say you?

2013-12-20 Thread Allen Elwood RR
my case English). Bill - Original Message - *From:* stevenson.c...@gmail.com *To:* U2 Users List *Date:* 12/20/2013 1:07 PM *Subject:* Re: [U2] BASIC code - upper, lower, CamelCase, what say you? If you use mixe

Re: [U2] BASIC code - upper, lower, CamelCase, what say you?

2013-12-20 Thread Bill Haskett
in my case English). Bill - Original Message - *From:* stevenson.c...@gmail.com *To:* U2 Users List *Date:* 12/20/2013 1:07 PM *Subject:* Re: [U2] BASIC code - upper, lower, CamelCase, what say you? If you use

Re: [U2] BASIC code - upper, lower, CamelCase, what say you?

2013-12-20 Thread Charles Stevenson
If you use mixed case, what search tools & comparitors do you use when researching your program libraries? Particularly if you have programs written in different styles over the years. What formatting tools do you use? On 12/20/2013 10:01 PM, Bobby Worley wrote: First off - Merry Christmas

Re: [U2] BASIC code - upper, lower, CamelCase, what say you?

2013-12-20 Thread Jeff Schasny
ubject: Re: [U2] BASIC code - upper, lower, CamelCase, what say you? This is really what got my thought-process flowing on this subject. I saw this code on github after the Rocket Software "Whats New in 11.2" webinar: https://github.com/RocketSoftware/u2-servers-lab/blob/master/UniVers

Re: [U2] BASIC code - upper, lower, CamelCase, what say you?

2013-12-20 Thread Bill Brutzman
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 2:32 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] BASIC code - upper, lower, CamelCase, what say you? This is really what got my thought-process flowing on this subject. I saw this code on github after the Rocket Software "Whats New in 11.2" webinar: htt

Re: [U2] BASIC code - upper, lower, CamelCase, what say you?

2013-12-20 Thread George Gallen
o: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] BASIC code - upper, lower, CamelCase, what say you? This is really what got my thought-process flowing on this subject. I saw this code on github after the Rocket Software "Whats New in 11.2" webinar: https://github.com/RocketSoftware/u2-servers-lab/blob/

Re: [U2] BASIC code - upper, lower, CamelCase, what say you?

2013-12-20 Thread Bobby Worley
This is really what got my thought-process flowing on this subject. I saw this code on github after the Rocket Software "Whats New in 11.2" webinar: https://github.com/RocketSoftware/u2-servers-lab/blob/master/UniVerse-11.2/Local/BP/LocalMain PROGRAM LocalMain ** Let's have a quick look at l

Re: [U2] BASIC code - upper, lower, CamelCase, what say you?

2013-12-20 Thread Bobby Worley
I am not concerned about portability at all, this is for our company only. On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 1:16 PM, Bruce Decker wrote: > Depends on how portable you want your code to be. Some older systems, > even some symbols are case insensitive. For U2, Unidata is pickier out of > the box about k

Re: [U2] BASIC code - upper, lower, CamelCase, what say you?

2013-12-20 Thread Dave Davis
Lowercase keywords - camelcase variables - lowercase comments - equates should be easy to differentiate from variables. Dave Davis Team Lead, Research & Development P: 614-875-4910 x108 F: 614-875-4088 E: dda...@harriscomputer.com [http://www.harrisco

Re: [U2] BASIC code - upper, lower, CamelCase, what say you?

2013-12-20 Thread Bill Brutzman
-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bobby Worley Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 2:02 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: [U2] BASIC code - upper, lower, CamelCase, what say you? First off - Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all. I'm starting to write a lot of new BASIC (Universe

Re: [U2] BASIC code - upper, lower, CamelCase, what say you?

2013-12-20 Thread Bruce Decker
Depends on how portable you want your code to be. Some older systems, even some symbols are case insensitive. For U2, Unidata is pickier out of the box about keyword case than UniData. I've settled on UPPERCASE for reserved words and camelCase for variables. But old-school die hards think

[U2] BASIC code - upper, lower, CamelCase, what say you?

2013-12-20 Thread Bobby Worley
First off - Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all. I'm starting to write a lot of new BASIC (Universe 11.1) subroutines for our DesignBais application, and since I'll be starting with a blank code template instead of modifying existing code, and I thought 'hey why not join the 21st century' an