Not very descriptive and hard to track down problems if they exist. 
Imagine a handful of tangled string, if they all look alike it's much 
harder to untangle. But if you have 3 or 4 or more different colored 
strings you can figure out much easier which strings are part of which knot.

Jim B wrote:
> I am not a programmer but can you explain what is wrong with $ALAN1, $ALAN2 etc?
> 
> Just the fact that his name was in them?
> 
> 
> Jim
> 
>   Every variable in the entire script was $ALAN1, $ALAN2,
> 
>>$ALAN3, $ALAN4, $ALAN5, etc... up to about $ALAN80  He wanted to ask me
>>a quick scripting question and I took a look at the script and almost
>>strangled him on the spot.
>>
>>--
>>Bill Warner <wwarner42@cox.net>
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