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Hi all,

I've never used a CONFIG STYLE in my WBCONFIG.SYS file before to format my source code while editing. When I need indents, I just use spaces. I'm curious as to your favorite STYLE settings for readability of your source code. I tried this one, which I copied off the wiki, modifying all of the UPPER settings to MIXED:

STYLE INDENT 0 0 KEYWORDS MIXED EXPRESSIONS MIXED LABELS MIXED COMMENTS CLEAR

I could hardly read it and my eyes glazed over. Am I just too used to all caps? What style statement do you prefer?

-- Susan

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Style Keyword lower Label UPPER Expression MiXed


i don't like the indent style because it changes whatever you do, but these other ones are what i like.

-john



2008/8/29 Susan Smith <susan@creativelyspeaking.net (susan@creativelyspeaking.net)>
Hi all,

I've never used a CONFIG STYLE in my WBCONFIG.SYS file before to format my source code while editing. When I need indents, I just use spaces. I'm curious as to your favorite STYLE settings for readability of your source code. I tried this one, which I copied off the wiki, modifying all of the UPPER settings to MIXED:

STYLE INDENT 0 0 KEYWORDS MIXED EXPRESSIONS MIXED LABELS MIXED COMMENTS CLEAR

I could hardly read it and my eyes glazed over. Am I just too used to all caps? What style statement do you prefer?

-- Susan


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Post by Susan Smith »

Thanks John. I just tried it your way. I DEFINITELY like the labels in upper case. I'm still considering the mixed expressions. I appreciate the input.

There are many features in BR that I just never took advantage of when they first came out. (If it ain't broke, don't fix it, I suppose) But now and then, I see somebody's source code where things are done another way, and it makes me realize that there is much I haven't tried. And THAT makes me wonder what else I'm missing.

-- Susan


John Bowman wrote:
Style Keyword lower Label UPPER Expression MiXed


i don't like the indent style because it changes whatever you do, but these other ones are what i like.

-john



2008/8/29 Susan Smith <susan@creativelyspeaking.net (susan@creativelyspeaking.net)>
Hi all,

I've never used a CONFIG STYLE in my WBCONFIG.SYS file before to format my source code while editing. When I need indents, I just use spaces. I'm curious as to your favorite STYLE settings for readability of your source code. I tried this one, which I copied off the wiki, modifying all of the UPPER settings to MIXED:

STYLE INDENT 0 0 KEYWORDS MIXED EXPRESSIONS MIXED LABELS MIXED COMMENTS CLEAR

I could hardly read it and my eyes glazed over. Am I just too used to all caps? What style statement do you prefer?

-- Susan

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style keywords lower
style labels upper
style expressions mixed

The Visual Studio editor automatically changes variables & labels to however you key them in a DIM statement or the line label. I haven’t used the external editor (BrEdit?), but that would be a nice enhancement, if it doesn’t already do that.

There are a lot of other things that make up “style”. This could be a topic for an extended discussion.

Rick Graham


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Hi all,

I've never used a CONFIG STYLE in my WBCONFIG.SYS file before to format my source code while editing. When I need indents, I just use spaces. I'm curious as to your favorite STYLE settings for readability of your source code. I tried this one, which I copied off the wiki, modifying all of the UPPER settings to MIXED:

STYLE INDENT 0 0 KEYWORDS MIXED EXPRESSIONS MIXED LABELS MIXED COMMENTS CLEAR

I could hardly read it and my eyes glazed over. Am I just too used to all caps? What style statement do you prefer?

-- Susan

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Post by Gabriel »

Yes, the cool thing about doing it the way Visual Studio does is you
can name your variables in whatever case you like, and the editor will
preserve them.

I have found a way around almost all the annoying interface problems
of BR. I no longer have to worry about line numbers. I can use cleaner
coding expressions such as SELECT CASE (switch). I've even gotten BR
to preserve my blank line spacing. It preserves vertical blank spaces
by making comment lines out of them, and and horizontal spacing is
preserved (in comments) by using the BR "! ." instead of using the
simple "!".

However, the only annoying interface problem I still have to deal with
is the syntax of my variables.

My program uses variable names and function names such as
ResetGlobalCacheValues and fnGetActiveWindow. After washing the
program in BR, it comes back looking like Resetglobalcachevalues and
Fngetactivewindow, which is much harder to read.

Gabriel

2008/8/30 Rickie Graham <rdgcss@attglobal.net>:
style keywords lower

style labels upper

style expressions mixed



The Visual Studio editor automatically changes variables & labels to however
you key them in a DIM statement or the line label. I haven't used the
external editor (BrEdit?), but that would be a nice enhancement, if it
doesn't already do that.



There are a lot of other things that make up "style". This could be a topic
for an extended discussion.



Rick Graham



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Hi all,

I've never used a CONFIG STYLE in my WBCONFIG.SYS file before to format my
source code while editing. When I need indents, I just use spaces. I'm
curious as to your favorite STYLE settings for readability of your source
code. I tried this one, which I copied off the wiki, modifying all of the
UPPER settings to MIXED:

STYLE INDENT 0 0 KEYWORDS MIXED EXPRESSIONS MIXED LABELS MIXED COMMENTS
CLEAR

I could hardly read it and my eyes glazed over. Am I just too used to all
caps? What style statement do you prefer?

-- Susan

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If you code Reset_Global_Cache_Values using the style options I listed, the
caps are preserved.

Rick Graham


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Yes, the cool thing about doing it the way Visual Studio does is you
can name your variables in whatever case you like, and the editor will
preserve them.

I have found a way around almost all the annoying interface problems
of BR. I no longer have to worry about line numbers. I can use cleaner
coding expressions such as SELECT CASE (switch). I've even gotten BR
to preserve my blank line spacing. It preserves vertical blank spaces
by making comment lines out of them, and and horizontal spacing is
preserved (in comments) by using the BR "! ." instead of using the
simple "!".

However, the only annoying interface problem I still have to deal with
is the syntax of my variables.

My program uses variable names and function names such as
ResetGlobalCacheValues and fnGetActiveWindow. After washing the
program in BR, it comes back looking like Resetglobalcachevalues and
Fngetactivewindow, which is much harder to read.

Gabriel

2008/8/30 Rickie Graham <rdgcss@attglobal.net>:
style keywords lower

style labels upper

style expressions mixed



The Visual Studio editor automatically changes variables & labels to
however
you key them in a DIM statement or the line label. I haven't used the
external editor (BrEdit?), but that would be a nice enhancement, if it
doesn't already do that.



There are a lot of other things that make up "style". This could be a
topic
for an extended discussion.



Rick Graham



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Hi all,

I've never used a CONFIG STYLE in my WBCONFIG.SYS file before to format my
source code while editing. When I need indents, I just use spaces. I'm
curious as to your favorite STYLE settings for readability of your source
code. I tried this one, which I copied off the wiki, modifying all of the
UPPER settings to MIXED:

STYLE INDENT 0 0 KEYWORDS MIXED EXPRESSIONS MIXED LABELS MIXED COMMENTS
CLEAR

I could hardly read it and my eyes glazed over. Am I just too used to all
caps? What style statement do you prefer?

-- Susan

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Right, but then I have to keep typing the underscore, which is
annoying and also makes the Variable Names look funny.

Surely it couldn't be too hard to just make BR ignore the case of my
variables...

Gabriel

On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 7:59 PM, Rickie Graham <rdgcss@attglobal.net> wrote:
If you code Reset_Global_Cache_Values using the style options I listed, the
caps are preserved.

Rick Graham


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Subject: Re: [BR_forum] CONFIG STYLE

Yes, the cool thing about doing it the way Visual Studio does is you
can name your variables in whatever case you like, and the editor will
preserve them.

I have found a way around almost all the annoying interface problems
of BR. I no longer have to worry about line numbers. I can use cleaner
coding expressions such as SELECT CASE (switch). I've even gotten BR
to preserve my blank line spacing. It preserves vertical blank spaces
by making comment lines out of them, and and horizontal spacing is
preserved (in comments) by using the BR "! ." instead of using the
simple "!".

However, the only annoying interface problem I still have to deal with
is the syntax of my variables.

My program uses variable names and function names such as
ResetGlobalCacheValues and fnGetActiveWindow. After washing the
program in BR, it comes back looking like Resetglobalcachevalues and
Fngetactivewindow, which is much harder to read.

Gabriel

2008/8/30 Rickie Graham <rdgcss@attglobal.net>:
style keywords lower

style labels upper

style expressions mixed



The Visual Studio editor automatically changes variables & labels to
however
you key them in a DIM statement or the line label. I haven't used the
external editor (BrEdit?), but that would be a nice enhancement, if it
doesn't already do that.



There are a lot of other things that make up "style". This could be a
topic
for an extended discussion.



Rick Graham



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Subject: [BR_forum] CONFIG STYLE



Hi all,

I've never used a CONFIG STYLE in my WBCONFIG.SYS file before to format my
source code while editing. When I need indents, I just use spaces. I'm
curious as to your favorite STYLE settings for readability of your source
code. I tried this one, which I copied off the wiki, modifying all of the
UPPER settings to MIXED:

STYLE INDENT 0 0 KEYWORDS MIXED EXPRESSIONS MIXED LABELS MIXED COMMENTS
CLEAR

I could hardly read it and my eyes glazed over. Am I just too used to all
caps? What style statement do you prefer?

-- Susan

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Like everything else, "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" :-)

Being a Cobol programmer for some 35+ years, variable names in Cobol are
often coded as Customer-Name, so Customer_Name looks great to me.

Rick Grahjam

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Right, but then I have to keep typing the underscore, which is
annoying and also makes the Variable Names look funny.

Surely it couldn't be too hard to just make BR ignore the case of my
variables...

Gabriel

On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 7:59 PM, Rickie Graham <rdgcss@attglobal.net> wrote:
If you code Reset_Global_Cache_Values using the style options I listed,
the
caps are preserved.

Rick Graham


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Subject: Re: [BR_forum] CONFIG STYLE

Yes, the cool thing about doing it the way Visual Studio does is you
can name your variables in whatever case you like, and the editor will
preserve them.

I have found a way around almost all the annoying interface problems
of BR. I no longer have to worry about line numbers. I can use cleaner
coding expressions such as SELECT CASE (switch). I've even gotten BR
to preserve my blank line spacing. It preserves vertical blank spaces
by making comment lines out of them, and and horizontal spacing is
preserved (in comments) by using the BR "! ." instead of using the
simple "!".

However, the only annoying interface problem I still have to deal with
is the syntax of my variables.

My program uses variable names and function names such as
ResetGlobalCacheValues and fnGetActiveWindow. After washing the
program in BR, it comes back looking like Resetglobalcachevalues and
Fngetactivewindow, which is much harder to read.

Gabriel

2008/8/30 Rickie Graham <rdgcss@attglobal.net>:
style keywords lower

style labels upper

style expressions mixed



The Visual Studio editor automatically changes variables & labels to
however
you key them in a DIM statement or the line label. I haven't used the
external editor (BrEdit?), but that would be a nice enhancement, if it
doesn't already do that.



There are a lot of other things that make up "style". This could be a
topic
for an extended discussion.



Rick Graham



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Subject: [BR_forum] CONFIG STYLE



Hi all,

I've never used a CONFIG STYLE in my WBCONFIG.SYS file before to format
my
source code while editing. When I need indents, I just use spaces. I'm
curious as to your favorite STYLE settings for readability of your source
code. I tried this one, which I copied off the wiki, modifying all of the
UPPER settings to MIXED:

STYLE INDENT 0 0 KEYWORDS MIXED EXPRESSIONS MIXED LABELS MIXED COMMENTS
CLEAR

I could hardly read it and my eyes glazed over. Am I just too used to all
caps? What style statement do you prefer?

-- Susan

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Post by GomezL at collectionso... »

We like to name our fields "TABLE_Field_Name"

These variable "Approximate" their SQL Equivilants "TABLE.Field_Name".

Luis

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Like everything else, "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" :-)

Being a Cobol programmer for some 35+ years, variable names in Cobol are
often coded as Customer-Name, so Customer_Name looks great to me.

Rick Grahjam

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Right, but then I have to keep typing the underscore, which is
annoying and also makes the Variable Names look funny.

Surely it couldn't be too hard to just make BR ignore the case of my
variables...

Gabriel

On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 7:59 PM, Rickie Graham <rdgcss@attglobal.net> wrote:
If you code Reset_Global_Cache_Values using the style options I listed,
the
caps are preserved.

Rick Graham


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Subject: Re: [BR_forum] CONFIG STYLE

Yes, the cool thing about doing it the way Visual Studio does is you
can name your variables in whatever case you like, and the editor will
preserve them.

I have found a way around almost all the annoying interface problems
of BR. I no longer have to worry about line numbers. I can use cleaner
coding expressions such as SELECT CASE (switch). I've even gotten BR
to preserve my blank line spacing. It preserves vertical blank spaces
by making comment lines out of them, and and horizontal spacing is
preserved (in comments) by using the BR "! ." instead of using the
simple "!".

However, the only annoying interface problem I still have to deal with
is the syntax of my variables.

My program uses variable names and function names such as
ResetGlobalCacheValues and fnGetActiveWindow. After washing the
program in BR, it comes back looking like Resetglobalcachevalues and
Fngetactivewindow, which is much harder to read.

Gabriel

2008/8/30 Rickie Graham <rdgcss@attglobal.net>:
style keywords lower

style labels upper

style expressions mixed



The Visual Studio editor automatically changes variables & labels to
however
you key them in a DIM statement or the line label. I haven't used the
external editor (BrEdit?), but that would be a nice enhancement, if it
doesn't already do that.



There are a lot of other things that make up "style". This could be a
topic
for an extended discussion.



Rick Graham



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Subject: [BR_forum] CONFIG STYLE



Hi all,

I've never used a CONFIG STYLE in my WBCONFIG.SYS file before to format
my
source code while editing. When I need indents, I just use spaces. I'm
curious as to your favorite STYLE settings for readability of your source
code. I tried this one, which I copied off the wiki, modifying all of the
UPPER settings to MIXED:

STYLE INDENT 0 0 KEYWORDS MIXED EXPRESSIONS MIXED LABELS MIXED COMMENTS
CLEAR

I could hardly read it and my eyes glazed over. Am I just too used to all
caps? What style statement do you prefer?

-- Susan

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but even our variables don't always use _s before words that should be capped... for example our very common Master_FileNo should have a capital N, because it's the start of a new word. I believed this type of capitalization is called Camel Case.

-john

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Luis I. Gomez <GomezL@collectionsoftware.com (GomezL@collectionsoftware.com)> wrote:
We like to name our fields "TABLE_Field_Name"

These variable "Approximate" their SQL Equivilants "TABLE.Field_Name".

Luis

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Like everything else, "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" :-)

Being a Cobol programmer for some 35+ years, variable names in Cobol are
often coded as Customer-Name, so Customer_Name looks great to me.

Rick Grahjam

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Right, but then I have to keep typing the underscore, which is
annoying and also makes the Variable Names look funny.

Surely it couldn't be too hard to just make BR ignore the case of my
variables...

Gabriel

On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 7:59 PM, Rickie Graham <rdgcss@attglobal.net (rdgcss@attglobal.net)> wrote:
If you code Reset_Global_Cache_Values using the style options I listed,
the
caps are preserved.

Rick Graham


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Subject: Re: [BR_forum] CONFIG STYLE

Yes, the cool thing about doing it the way Visual Studio does is you
can name your variables in whatever case you like, and the editor will
preserve them.

I have found a way around almost all the annoying interface problems
of BR. I no longer have to worry about line numbers. I can use cleaner
coding expressions such as SELECT CASE (switch). I've even gotten BR
to preserve my blank line spacing. It preserves vertical blank spaces
by making comment lines out of them, and and horizontal spacing is
preserved (in comments) by using the BR "! ." instead of using the
simple "!".

However, the only annoying interface problem I still have to deal with
is the syntax of my variables.

My program uses variable names and function names such as
ResetGlobalCacheValues and fnGetActiveWindow. After washing the
program in BR, it comes back looking like Resetglobalcachevalues and
Fngetactivewindow, which is much harder to read.

Gabriel

2008/8/30 Rickie Graham <rdgcss@attglobal.net (rdgcss@attglobal.net)>:
style keywords lower

style labels upper

style expressions mixed



The Visual Studio editor automatically changes variables & labels to
however
you key them in a DIM statement or the line label. I haven't used the
external editor (BrEdit?), but that would be a nice enhancement, if it
doesn't already do that.



There are a lot of other things that make up "style". This could be a
topic
for an extended discussion.



Rick Graham



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Subject: [BR_forum] CONFIG STYLE



Hi all,

I've never used a CONFIG STYLE in my WBCONFIG.SYS file before to format
my
source code while editing. When I need indents, I just use spaces. I'm
curious as to your favorite STYLE settings for readability of your source
code. I tried this one, which I copied off the wiki, modifying all of the
UPPER settings to MIXED:

STYLE INDENT 0 0 KEYWORDS MIXED EXPRESSIONS MIXED LABELS MIXED COMMENTS
CLEAR

I could hardly read it and my eyes glazed over. Am I just too used to all
caps? What style statement do you prefer?

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