Re: [netrexx-pipelines] Migrate OS/2 pipelines to NetRexx Pipes

[J L. T. <jlt...@ma...>]

On 2022-06-17 17:39:10 hp...@we... wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Am 17.06.2022 um 20:44 schrieb Jeff Hennick:
> > My ERROR!  I apologize.
>
> IMO no need to apologize, since the "documentation" of its
> possible abbreviation is only a well hidden hint given by denoting
> the stage name in upper case/lower case. This is shown in the CMS
> help files, but not in the author's edition of 'the Book' as I
> know it.
>
> In addition, editing using a fixed font like 'Courier New' the
> lower case 'L' is very close to the number '1'. As such it is
> regarded as bad habit using 'l' as variable name. Maybe same holds
> true for the stage Locate. (Nonetheless I mostly use !strip!l to
> remove blank lines.)
>
> Best,
> M.
	Courier and Courier New, IMO, should be deprecated; there are plenty of other monospace
fonts available that make the distinction clear, so clinging to an outmoded typeface
designed for use on a mechanical device with limited number of keys seems like bad
practice to me, and ought not outweigh the advantages of using abbreviations.
	I generally only use the abbreviations when writing pipelines 'on the fly' to be executed
directly from the command line; when writing them in source code I use the fully expanded
word because it better documents what the pipeline is doing.

Leslie
>
> > In getting NetRexx Pipelines stages updated last year, I did not look at
> > the working LOCATE stage, and did not inspect the IBM documentation to
> > see it could be abbreviated to just L.  I will supply the needed short
> > class files (one is needed for each "word": L, LO, LOC, etc. to call the
> > LOCATE stage) to do this. When I have time, I'll scan the IBM
> > documentation to see if there are other such stages I have missed.
> >
> > Jeff Hennick
>
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