This ain't rocket science but it piques my curiosity.
I've just acquired another client who's system contains an extrodinary use of
the prefix THE in front of extracted values within a FOR/NEXT or LOOP and
labels.
READ CUST FROM blah, blah
C=DCOUNT(CUST<15>,@VM)
FOR I=1 TO C
THE.SALESMAN=CUST<15,I>
NEXT I
I've seen this before but not to the extent on this client. The application
appears older (mid 1980's) and certainly homegrown.
I'm just wondering who comes up with this stuff.
Also, was there ever any lack of faith in the READ statement when assigning
the variable REC. I'm now seeing some of this:
REC="" ; READ REC FROM FILE, ID ELSE REC=""
Again, not rocket science.
Thanks
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