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Reply to Select Columns in Left Margin
- Subject: Reply to Select Columns in Left Margin
- From: johng@RMF41.USACE.ARMY.MIL
- Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 08:54:13 -0600
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> Does anyone know why you have to place column names at the left margin in
> SELECT paragraphs? The User's Guide explains that it is to differentiate
> column names and commands. Couldn't there be a more aesthetical solution? A
> structured program in SQR is because of this an oxymoron...
>
> Have I perhaps overlooked any "work around" of this matter?
>
> Orjan Nordlund
> National Council for Crime Prevention Sweden
Only the first column name needs to be indented, if you are using only
column names and &aliases, provided you use comma separators between the
column/alias pairs, and there is no intermixed SQR code. Assuming you put
all column specs first within the begin-select, followed by the sqr code,
then there is only 1 "sore thumb" in your structured listing.
IHMO, structured-listings don't mean structured programs, although they
can help in reading one. They can also hide logic flaws... hence, lack of
indentation within the begin-selects doesn't bother me.
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