Hi Mark,

Just one of the evil carry-overs from H.C.; actually, from this whole 
experience, I've come to the same conclusion; particularly for someone like me 
with poor vision and a tremendous likelihood of typos.

Thanks,

Joe Wilkins

On Nov 22, 2012, at 1:46 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote:

> Malte, +1 for global constants.
> 
> Joe, I don't understand people who don't put quotes around literals. In my 
> view, this is bad programming. 
> 
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> On 22 nov 2012, at 22:42, Malte Brill wrote:
> 
>> Even though explicit vars (or strict compile mode in the prefs) is 
>> considdered to be a major headache by some, I have never looked back since I 
>> started to make this a prerequisite in all the code my company writes for 
>> others. When we have people writing code for us, we also require it to 
>> compile in strict mode, otherwise the code is not accepted. It adds little 
>> extra work, but helps tremendously when debugging or refactoring. I can only 
>> encourage people to use strict compile mode. You will quickly find all typos 
>> and it actually makes for cleaner code. I would even want the engine to be 
>> (optionally) a little stricter and introduce typed variables (and global 
>> constants *sigh), well I might be one of only a few there, but wishful 
>> thinking never hurts. :-)
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Malte
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