Aaaaaaah! REMOVE or not to REMOVE. REMOVE has three other associated statements that make the set a very powerful and distinct statement set indeed.
REMOVE has REVREMOVE and GETREM and SETREM. The only gotcha I fell into many years ago was upon seeing a statement that read... VAR = VAR I promptly deleted it thinking it had become redundant code after some sort of global editor change. To my cost it was in fact a very important statement as it resets the REMOVE pointer to the beginning thus ensuring any subsequent REMOVE upon this variable would start at the beginning. I put it back with a nice big comment to that effect. So Will please be open minded as to the need and merits of all statements as they are only unreadable to the uninitiated. My 2 cents Trevor Ockenden e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 20 July 2005 11:33 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] THE variable names Will, There is a very good use for REMOVE. Consider a cross-reference item (inherited, not built by current programmer) which has many thousands of keys and IDs. You could select the IDs and READNEXT or REMOVE to process. Either is far faster than FOR/NEXT and extract. I've seen a 40 minute process reduced to 6 seconds (thanks Louis Nardozi) by changing to this method. To everything there is a season, and to each instruction there is a task. Regards, Charlie Noah Inland Truck Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes: Then you are mistaken. Remove does not confuse me. Remove unnecessarily confuses other people. Why use a structure when another one, less confusing, more known, more used is readily available? And I think you missed my point, even if it did confuse me, the main thrust is to write code that is easily maintained by others, not by yourself. So whether or not it confused me should not be one of the criteria imho. READNEXT works just find for processing a multi-item list just as REMOVE does and it's much more widely used and understood. So I see no point to the Remove command at all. If you imagined that I have not opened a manual in 25 years, you are mistaken. I routinely review manuals for training other programmers. Not just Universe manuals, but other Pick manuals as well. And I have used Remove on occasion, but was never very satisfied with it. Will Johnson ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.9.2/52 - Release Date: 19/07/2005 __________________________________________________________________ << ella for Spam Control >> has removed Spam messages and set aside Newsletters for me You can use it too - and it's FREE! http://www.ellaforspam.com -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.9.2/52 - Release Date: 19/07/2005 ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
