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Re: _extra keyword [message #43360 is a reply to message #43326]

Thu, 07 April 2005 12:58

David Fanning
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Michael Wallace writes:

> Just as a programming style note, when I'm in a routine which only
> passes extra keywords to one other routine, I always use _STRICT_EXTRA.
> That guarantees me that if I mistype something or get a wrong
> keyword, the error will be caught.
>
> The only time I don't use _STRICT_EXTRA is if I'm going to pass the
> extra arguments to at least two other routines. In this case you'd want
> the first routine to ignore the keywords associated with the second and
> vice versa. However, I only recommend doing this when it's really
> necessary. I've found that extra keywords are much easier to debug and
> maintain when you're able to use _STRICT_EXTRA.

Amen to this!

Cheers,

David

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		_extra keyword By: antonioolita on Fri, 01 April 2005 02:12
		Re: _extra keyword By: David Fanning on Thu, 07 April 2005 12:58
		Re: _extra keyword By: Michael Wallace on Thu, 07 April 2005 12:52
		Re: _extra keyword By: David Fanning on Thu, 07 April 2005 05:33
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		Re: _EXTRA KEYWORD By: David Fanning on Wed, 04 November 2009 15:22
		Re: _EXTRA KEYWORD By: David Fanning on Wed, 11 November 2009 19:01
		Re: _EXTRA KEYWORD By: Michael Galloy on Wed, 11 November 2009 18:54
		Re: _EXTRA KEYWORD By: David Fanning on Wed, 11 November 2009 17:36
		Re: _EXTRA KEYWORD By: ben.bighair on Wed, 11 November 2009 16:23
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