Internal Subroutine Names

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Aargh! Just seen some Subroutines with the Name

S01-DO-SOMETHING
S02-MAKE-LOVE-NOT-WAR
S03-I-LOVE-NUMBERS

Good the Text after the Numbers was different from these but what brings Softwaredevelopers to give their Subroutine such Names?

I Develop now for many Years not only Natural also Java, COBOL and some other Languages but i’ve never seen Functions/Methods with Numbers* in the Name. I think thats not only needless its also dangerous for maintainance. If you would insert one Subroutine/Function into such a Programm you have to renumber the following Subroutines.

And if someone come and would say it’s better to find at the Source area than i have to say what about Strg+F; Outlines (like this); Collapse/Expand Source at SPoD; Mark and Scan at BS2000 Sourceeditor;…

Is there a Natural Styleguide for naming Variables, Subroutines and the whole other Stuff?

What do you think about this?

Greetings
Sascha Wiegandt

  • Except like ascii2ebcdic but not a Counternumber
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Hi,

I think this is legacy stuff from “good” old COBOL days, when you had to extract each loop body into a separate subroutine, and from standardized programming.

According to your avatar photo you seem to be much too young to know this :wink:

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