Hi Mecki,
I remember those 32K limits. I found a way to cheat a bit, though. I
would split a source program into pieces and INCLUDE the subsequent
pieces into the first. As long as the "object" didn't exceed 32K, it
worked. Ah, those were the days! :-)
Regards,
Charlie Noah
On 01-26-2012 2:54 PM, Mecki Foerthmann wrote:
No, you are completely wrong if you think that is only your world.
Who in our game has the luxury working only with their own code?
I have been doing what you describe for over 25 years now and probably
most of the contributors here do the same thing for a living too and
not just since yesterday.
And I may have made that silly mistake once or twice as a junior but
since then it has become second nature.
And in those days we didn't have the luxury of 8000 line programs
because the limit for any item was 32K and you were forced to use very
short variable names and couldn't even indent your code because spaces
are characters too.
In one shop I worked we used X, Y, Z etc. in 'primary' code and in
internal subroutines XX, YY, ZZ and so on for loop counters.
I personally prefer more meaningful names but can't do that always
because I try to follow the naming conventions of the code I'm working
on.
Even the editor you use is irrelevant since I haven't seen one yet
that doesn't have a search function.
Just go to the top of the program and search for the variable name you
intend to use.
If your search comes up negative you're safe to use it.
Simple!
And OTOH how can you make 'rapid changes' to code if you don't
understand what it is supposed to do and where the varibles come from?
On 26/01/2012 20:16, Wjhonson wrote:
Completely wrong :)
You apparently have the luxury of only working on programs written by
yourself.
In my world, we are called upon to make rapid changes in programs
written by twenty programmers over twenty years.
You haven't specified *how* you ensure that your counters are unique,
and by the way, the issue is not just counters, but any variable.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mecki Foerthmann<mec...@gmx.net>
To: u2-users<u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org>
Sent: Thu, Jan 26, 2012 12:13 pm
Subject: Re: [U2] Passing by Value
What has the length of the program to do with it?
always abide to the rule that a for next counter in any internal
ubroutine has to be unique.
hat way even if the sub is called from within a for next loop the
ounters never conflict.
o it doesn't make any difference whatsoever if a program is 80 or 8000
ines long.
BTW a program with 8000 lines is usually a sign of poor design.
On 26/01/2012 19:02, Wjhonson wrote:
You've never worked on programs that are 8000 lines long I take it :)
-----Original Message-----
From: John Hester<jhes...@momtex.com>
To: U2 Users List<u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org>
Sent: Thu, Jan 26, 2012 10:49 am
Subject: Re: [U2] Passing by Value
I like to use increasing roman numerals:
FOR I = 1 TO COUNTER
GOSUB PROCESS
EXT I
PROCESS:
OR II = 1 TO COUNTER2
FOR III = 1 TO COUNTER3
FOR IV = 1 TO COUNTER4
NEXT IV
NEXT III
EXT II
ETURN
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ent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 10:09 AM
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ubject: Re: [U2] Passing by Value
n a related note, any clever ideas to localize a variable to a local
ubroutine?
For I = 1 to 10
GOSUB PROCESS
ext I
top
3000 Lines of code later....
PROCESS:
OR I = 1 TO 20
RINT I
EXT I
ETURN
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