Re: TABs in SQR?

[John Nardulli <jnardull@VANSTAR.COM>]

I don't like to use Tabs because some editors store Tabs as ASCII
characters (like a bar) and other editors don't recognize them as actual
Tabs ...  instead they recognize the character value.

i.e.
     open $Source_File as 10
may look like the following in another editor
|open $Source_File as 10

Why don't you ask the consultant who told you not to put TABS in your
programs?  There may be another reason(s).

Hope this helps,
J




From: Sharon Bennett <sbennett@SOFTWAREARCH.COM> on 08/16/99 10:21 AM PDT

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Subject:  TABs in SQR?

A fellow consultant who has been coding SQR for several years recently told
me to make sure I have no TABs in my programs. Now I think to this point I
may only have had a couple in the comments in my programs; however, my
question is 'Why is this important?' I can not find a reference to TABs in
the SQR3 User Guide nor in the book SQR in PeopleSoft and Other
Applications. Granted I have not read either of the books cover to cover.
Another consultant here says he has never heard that TABs cause problems
before now. I have been writing SQR now for 6 months, and was a Visual
Basic
programmer prior to this, so this seems really odd to me.