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Yoda coding styles
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21/04/2006 09:30:27
Mike Yearwood
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
 
 
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Visual FoxPro
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Yoda coding styles
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Everytime I see someone else's code I'm left scratching my head.

Take this line of code:

Index Tag shiprate On province+Allt(city) Uniq


Besides the data modelling no-no of province and city in a table - permitting various incorrect spellings of province and city and impossible combinations of non-existant cities/provinces, and the questionable practice of having multiple shiprates per city+prov in the table only to ignore any but the first one, the code is written as if by Yoda.

The help clearly shows

INDEX ON eExpression TO IDXFileName | TAG TagName [BINARY]
[COLLATE cCollateSequence] [OF CDXFileName] [FOR lExpression]
[COMPACT] [ASCENDING | DESCENDING] [UNIQUE | CANDIDATE] [ADDITIVE]

So while that line of yodacode works, it throws me for a loop. So I hereby request that we coin the term yodacode to apply to any yoda-like programmers.
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