RE: Additional RPGLE Enhancement Request

["Kahn, David" <KAHN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 16 Jul, 1997 Brian Johnson (brian@helpsystems.com) wrote:

>I tend to fall into the *purist* category.

Really? We hadn't noticed. :-))

>But darned if I wasn't
>looking at some code I wrote a while back, and what did I find but a
>LEAVE op code smack dab in the middle of a DOW loop!  It's hard to stick
>you your purist guns when it's so dang handy to just stick a LEAVE in
>there...
>:)     :(     :)

Aha, Brian, so maybe a better answer to my "when does a crutch become a
tool" question might have been "when it becomes useful to someone who
could manage perfectly well without it". If you want a real world
example, consider the pedal bin, which was originally designed as an aid
for amputees.

Dave Kahn - TCO, Tengiz, Kazakstan
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         dkahn@cix.compulink.co.uk  (from  August 6th)

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