Why you should care
For code readability purpose, avoid initializations with 0 or spaces.
How we detect
CAST Highlight counts one occurrence each time one of the following patterns are encountered in the WORKING STORAGE section:
- VALUE 0
- VALUE +0
- VALUE ‘ ‘ (string containing only blanks)
- PIC X(<length>) VALUE ‘<string>’, where the length of <string> is different from <length>
- MOVE 0
- MOVE +0
- MOVE ‘ ‘
References
Coming soon…
About CAST and Highlight’s Code Insights
Over the last 25 years, CAST has leveraged unique knowledge on software quality measurement by analyzing thousands of applications and billions of lines of code. Based on this experience and community standards on programming best practices, Highlight implements hundreds of code insights across 15+ technologies to calculate health factors of a software.