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He's been with the company longer than me obviously and because he was the
only person who could allegedly program (before I entered the picture), he
is considered something short of a genius!!! No matter what I tell the guy,
he just refuses to see sense. Oh well, maybe I should do as you say and hit
him on the head ;-)
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From: root_at_fatcity.com [mailto:root_at_fatcity.com]On Behalf Of
Brian_McQuillan_at_gelco.com
Sent: 18 January 2001 16:51
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: Re: PL/SQL coding style
Chandini,
The use of the goto's alone justifies hitting him over the head repeatedly
with
some nice book like Oracle 8i PL/SQL programming
goto is bad news in any language (never mind c) as it leads to very
unstructured
programming and bad things tend to happen.
my $0.02 worth
so.... that being the case why is he the Senior Developer ?
Brian.
"Chandini Paterson" <chandini.paterson_at_morse.com> on 01/18/2001 11:01:57 AM
Please respond to ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> cc: (bcc: Brian McQuillan/GELCO)
Hi gurus,
I've just changed jobs quite recently and am already having problems with
my Senior Developer (yippee)
It concerns the PL/SQL coding style. The guy insists that I use 'SELECT
..INTO ' in my code rather than explicit cursors, even though I tried
telling him it is more efficient with the latter. He apparently finds it
more 'readable' with the 'SELECT.. INTO ' and says that the double fetch
(for each row) is 'no big deal'.
Also, he insists of using a lot of GOTOs in his code and expects me to do
the same. I am adamant that we use EXCEPTION handlers to achieve the same
thing (BAsically he checks for error conditions in his code and then does a
'goto error_handler' to handle the error!!!). I prefer using EXCEPTIONS to
handle all my error conditions.
I was just wondering if my concepts are all wrong at this time. I am just
curious to know if any of you find his way of coding style preferable to
mine. (OH, by the way, he was initially a 'C' progrmmer). Any inputs will
be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Chandini
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