This document lists the ABL coding standards propagated by Consultingwerk. These coding standards are followed by Consultingwerk during tool development and until further instructions are given when working on customer projects.
- ABL Keywords
- The usage of “NO-UNDO” when defining variables or temp-tables
- Accessing Data with 4GL/ABL
- General coding style
- Naming of Buffers and Temp-Tables
- Variable and Parameter Definitions
- OO Object Oriented
- Cleanup Code
- Temp-Table Definitions
- RUN statements and {include file references}
- File Name Casing
- Concatenation of Strings
- General conventions
- Named events
- Exceptions / Errors