>Hi,
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>MUCH SNIPPING...
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>I work on an app that took over 10 years to reach majurity. I am the 4th or 5th developer to work on it. It is an FPD26 app that is being converted over to VFP8 now. I have had to add variable declarations in the middle of over a thousand of them. I cannot imagine realigning that many pages of them for one single variable. I came as visually close as possible in a reasonable amount of time.
You're excused :). As for me, I keep variables together only if it's practical and/or if they are related. Like:
lnMyNum = 12
lcMyString = "ABCD"
lnCounter = 0
lnHisTelNumber = 12
lcHisString = "ABCD"
lnHisCounter = 0
Realigning 1000 variables (1000?? whow) is surely not what I expect someone else or myself to do. One has to remain practical.
>>A professional developer must realize that there are, or may be, other developers who have to deal with the code now, or in the future. A personal standard is just not good enough!
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>I agree, but the next IT manager or lead developer that comes tomorrow could change the standards for the future and it could all 'go to pot' anyway.
I totally understand the dilemma.
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