Associated fields

[GCC]

Just a little rant.

For the last few years I have tended to use field names rather then field
numbers in most of my programming.  Makes things clearer especially when one has
to go back into a program after a long period of time.

The only problem is that when one associates a group of fields, we loose that
functionality.  At least when running a syntax check.

I associated 3 phone number fields in a previously written program.  When I
tested the program all seemed to work correctly when in those fields.  However
when I went into the input table to modify it, it burped on phone_home (field
20).  I needed to change the phone_xxxx references to field numbers.

So, this begs the question, if *clerk can run the program properly using
phone_xxxx, why does the syntax check show an error?  Yes I realize that 20 p1)
phone_home is not 20 phone_hone.  

Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting