Re: Re[2]: Cobol redefine in SQL

This sounds exactly like some programs I was forced to work on at one time that were written in a variant of Business Basic.

There's good BASIC, and there's BAD BASIC. This was very bad BAD BASIC.

The value of part of a string in a file was used to determine what was in the rest of the string, and where it was. Very, very ugly.

COBOL redefines sound exactly like that, and if so, I stand by my condemnation. yuck.

Jared

On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 18:29, Jonathan Gennick wrote:
> Wednesday, November 26, 2003, 7:44:25 PM, Jared Still (jkstill_at_cybcon.com) wrote:
> JS> Oh, so *that's* what a cobol redefine is.
>
> JS> How incredibly ugly. Must have been someone's
> JS> crutch for poor (or no) design.
>
> No, no, no. REDEFINE is very powerful. It's part of the
> COBOL magic.
>
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