Re: A new DbMgr

Posted by Jim Guerber on December 04, 2008 at 12:52:44:

In Reply to: Re: A new DbMgr posted by Jon Sacks on December 04, 2008 at 12:18:16:

No sarcasm intended! I really think Comet(32?) should be updated so that include files are not necessary.

Short of that I really think that the process of updating everything:

• The data definition


• The actual file


• The include file(s)


• Compiling programs that use the include files

Is too tedious and too prone to mistakes.

How about a new syntax in Comet32 that just designates the file by its virtual name? That would take care of declaring all field variables and dynamically generate a format descriptor for the file.

set cust = 22                  !sets the LUN
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!close lun 22, open the customer file on lun 22, dynamically declares variables and generates a pseudo format called cust
file cust is customer dir='cos'
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extract(cust) key=xxx$, excp=nnn        extracts the "customer" record into the format "cust"
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if cust.fname$ = 'John" ....

Follow Ups:

• Re: A new DbMgr Stephen Auerbach 14:56:14 12/04/08 (8)
  • Re: A new DbMgr Jon Sacks 16:47:30 12/04/08 (7)
    • Re: A new DbMgr Jim Guerber 17:44:08 12/04/08 (6)
      • Re: A new DbMgr Keith Smith 22:20:44 12/04/08 (5)
        • Re: A new DbMgr Jim Guerber 04:49:30 12/05/08 (3)
          • Re: A new DbMgr Frank Caton 12:21:56 12/08/08 (0)
          • Re: A new DbMgr Keith Smith 22:35:49 12/05/08 (1)
            • Re: A new DbMgr Keith Smith 22:46:46 12/05/08 (0)
        • Re: A new DbMgr Keith Smith 22:43:20 12/04/08 (0)

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