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  • Subject: Re: How about in INC opcode
  • From: boldt@xxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 13:31:34 -0500



Roger wrote:
>Beyond obtuse language syntax, you could also use
>
>    x = x + 1
>
>Simple. Clean. No C in column 6. No Eval. No nothing but exactly what you
>intended.
>
>When the language syntax gets too convoluted you get in trouble! If you
want
>a shorthand for incrementing values, you could lobby for C/Java's "++."
>Great in expressions. But be careful!
>
>What's the difference between?
>    x++
>    ++x

Note that there is a big difference between x=x+1 and x++.
In the first, x is evaluated twice, but only once in the
second.  No big deal if x is a simple scalar value, but
consider more complex expressions:

arr(proc(x))=arr(proc(x))+1
arr(proc(x))++

If the procedure call proc(x) returns different values
on subsequent calls, or it has some side effect, the
two statements clearly have different actions (besides
having different golf scores).

Cheers!  Hans

Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com


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