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From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Follow the true Way -- A PLEA!! for good program design.
Summary: The fix should be applied to the correct place.
Keywords: AREXX , *
Message-ID: <1343@tardis.Tymnet.COM>
Date: 20 Nov 90 03:43:19 GMT
References: <1990Nov17.080652.28036@watcsc.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
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In article <1990Nov17.080652.28036@watcsc.waterloo.edu> psop@watcsc.waterloo.edu (Paul Sop) writes:
>I want everyone, from now on, everywhere, who owns an amiga, to add
>call close 'STDIN';call open 'STDIN','*','R'

I will not add this to my programs.  That is not the appropriate place to
put a bug fix.  Instead, I will wait for the Arexx interpreter itself to be
fixed.  Putting kludges in all your programs to get around a bug in one
particular version of the interpeter is not what I'd call "clean coding".
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