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

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Subject: PL/SQL coding style

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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