Coding Styles

[Pete]

I'm always reinventing the wheel. I have a round one I'm expecting completion on sometime in the late summer of 2035. That said, awhile back I started making my own libraries, but I have to admit, it is tough to just get them to play nice with other new stuff I code. Rather than keep trying to iron out ways to make them universal, I just bite the bullet, go plenty of those, and adapt the code.

Right now I'm pulling out my hair to decide whether to go back to using global arrays or continue slugging through trying to remember them and pass only what's needed to each subroutine. 

In regard to finding gosub and sub calls in my code, I simply leave a line space above the call... 

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For i = 1 to 5

PRINT i

NEXT



Gosub whatever

Print "Finished"

END

To call a subroutine, I used to use the CALL statement. Now I prefer not to, but I need the line space to help me find them, as I can't rely on doing a SEARCH for the CALL statement, anymore. Which reminds me how important naming is if you intend to rely on using the SEARCH feature to find out where you are in the code. For example, you could do: DIM a as integer, but it is far easier to name it a% if you have to find each and every one of them in a routine that has several phrases or remark statements where the single letter a appears. Search "whole word" is of no use in this instance.

Pete