Automatic and locking (was RE: -RO causes an error)

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Bob Stockler (Fri, 3 Jun 2005 20:56:46 -0400):

> Top post (for those not interested in what I'm responding to) . . .
>
> Way back when, in the deep, dark days of history, on the CompuServe
> Forum, it took a lot of us old timers a lot of messages to convince
> George Simon that it was "Not A Good Thing" under any circumstances
> to do writes in Automatic Processing Tables.
>
> We finally beat him down on the subject, and he quit doing that, and
> the problems he was having mysteriously disappeared.
>
> There may be exceptions, but I continue to believe that doing writes
> from Automatic Processing Tables is a "Bad Idea", if not bad filePro
> programming.

Well, my point was that there's a difference between modifying real
fields and then issuing a generic WRITE, which is definitely "A Bad
Thing[tm]", and doing a protected lookup and then "WRITE lookupname",
which some people would consider bad design, even if it is perfectly
legal.

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