Re: [U2] BASIC code - upper, lower, CamelCase, what say you?

All upper. All variables global to the program. Everything is untyped.

I've always wondered why anyone would induce an increased level of 
complexity into an inherently simple language. It's part of the beauty 
of the development environment.

George Gallen wrote:
> Wonder if anyone has ever done a study on whether by using U/l variables, now you will be hitting the shift
> a whole lot more, does this lead to or worsen carpel tunnel?   Kind of a serious concern.....
>  
> I think it also makes debugging more difficult, I'd rather stick to all UPPER or all lower Nothing better
> Than wasting 2 hours going through a program to find out Oops, mean L instead of l
>
> George
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bobby Worley
> Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 2:32 PM
> To: U2 Users List
> Subject: Re: [U2] BASIC code - upper, lower, CamelCase, what say you?
>
> This is really what got my thought-process flowing on this subject.  I saw
> this code on github after the Rocket Software "Whats New in 11.2" webinar:
>
> https://github.com/RocketSoftware/u2-servers-lab/blob/master/UniVerse-11.2/Local/BP/LocalMain
>
> PROGRAM LocalMain
>     ** Let's have a quick look at local scoping
>
>     CRT "Calling the local SUBROUTINE"
>     CALL Main(@SENTENCE) ;* This will call Main() below, rather than
> an external subroutine
>     CRT "Back from the local SUBROUTINE"
>
> END
>
> SUBROUTINE Main(Args)
>     CRT "Running inside the local SUBROUTINE"
>     CRT "Args:" :Args
>
>     FOR Counter = 1 TO 3
>         CALL InnerLoop(Counter)
>     NEXT Counter
> RETURN
>
> SUBROUTINE InnerLoop(OutsideCounter)
>     * Notice this won't affect Main()'s 'Counter' variable due to scoping
>     FOR Counter = 1 TO OutsideCounter
>         CRT "*":
>
>     NEXT Counter
>     CRT
> RETURN
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