"When" processing

[Brian K. White]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce Easton" <bruce at stn.com>
To: "filepro list" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 1:55 PM
Subject: RE: "When" processing

> This is a late response, and this is a long shot, but I
> do see how a called table could stop working without 'modifications'
> to it or the input table.  Example:
> 
> Developer A tokenizes input and called tables against auto table
> 'AUTOSPECIAL'
> and keeps it a secret.
> 
> (Maybe auto table 'AUTOSPECIAL' differs slightly from the default AUTO table
> in that dummy XX has different lengths.)
> 
> Not knowing the secret, Developer B comes along and tokenizes the input
> table
> (without changing any code) against the default auto table.  The called
> table then
> might be confused by the new length of XX if it were, for instance, the key
> for a lookup.

OOOooh EVIL.

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