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[Richard Witkopp]

Have to disagree with you regarding advanced courses.
The ones I went to went to a great deal of effort to teach
methods to avoid procedural coding, access statements,
field procedures which eliminate nasty procedures elsewhere,
etc.

> No, I know. I didn't make myself clear.
> What I think is unsupported is relying on several access 
> statements, the first
> one without a request, to generate redundant code in the find 
> procedure for
> values of path other than 1: the manual says only one path 
> allowed. It appears
> that specifying the "passed values" access, followed by the 
> normal "request"
> access, generates the find I want, although it's probably not 
> supported code.
> 
> I've not been on the advanced courses myself, although 
> colleagues have, despite
> my opposition. I think it's more important to learn 'the 
> Powerhouse way': one
> of my colleagues ALWAYS generated & included every procedure 
> in case he wanted
> to modify it ever after the advanced course. I'm sure he 
> wasn't taught to do
> that, but I think the advanced course knowledge is more 
> danger than use,
> especially to a retraining 3gl programmer. I've had no 
> trouble picking up
> procedural code for myself from the nice manual. In my view, 
> the most important
> lesson about modifying the default procedures is "DON'T" - there are
> exceptions, but not many.

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