08-10-2024, 03:46 AM
I'm a bit different than Charlie when it comes to using GOTO. I almost never use it. Instead, I'll nest a WHILE LOOP inside a DO LOOP and use EXIT WHILE. Works in most of my cases.
One think I WISH WE HAD was IDE coloration of LABELS.
As I get older I try to not use colons to put multiple lines of code on one line; That way, I can SEARCH for ':' to find labels much easier.
I have also done as Charlie and made sub calls and subroutines so the main body of code is easy to read and see what is going on, but the downside is I have to keep jumping back and forth to the subroutines to see the whole code. My trick for that is to open two IDE's, one for the main flow and the other to see the subroutines as I work my way through the main code.
What have we learned from this? We've learned getting old is a pain in the ASCII. I used to keep all of these constructs in my head. Now that space has transitioned into a parking lot for my weekly Alzheimer's group. We meet on... Wed... no, Thur... OH F***!
Pete
One think I WISH WE HAD was IDE coloration of LABELS.
As I get older I try to not use colons to put multiple lines of code on one line; That way, I can SEARCH for ':' to find labels much easier.
I have also done as Charlie and made sub calls and subroutines so the main body of code is easy to read and see what is going on, but the downside is I have to keep jumping back and forth to the subroutines to see the whole code. My trick for that is to open two IDE's, one for the main flow and the other to see the subroutines as I work my way through the main code.
What have we learned from this? We've learned getting old is a pain in the ASCII. I used to keep all of these constructs in my head. Now that space has transitioned into a parking lot for my weekly Alzheimer's group. We meet on... Wed... no, Thur... OH F***!
Pete
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