RE: *Blanks and *Blank

[Hans Boldt <boldt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

John Carr wrote:
>>Thank's for your reply and answer for my question,
>>So the difference between *BLANKS and *BLANK is just sufix "S".
>>But ... another question ( just curious )
>
>>    Why IBM make 2 keyword in the same function ?
>
>Because....
>
>Doing a;
>  MOVE *BLANKS  ONEBYTE  1
>
>Wouldn't be grammatically correct. Ok, yuse guys?
>
>Remember down south   Ya'll is singlar,  Ya'll's is plural, and
>All Ya'll's  is plural possessive.
>
>Without starting an argument,  why did they give us a
>DOW when we had a perfectly good DOU ?  <GDR, LMAO>
>
>Just kidding you guys,  now don't start please.

Huh?  I thought "ya'll" was the plural?

Why do we have *BLANK and *BLANKS if they mean the
same thing?  For the same reason we have *ZERO and
*ZEROS!  I've been working with RPG compilers for
most of the past 18 years, and I haven't the
faintest idea!

(18 years with RPG!  Maybe that's why I'm learning
Perl in my spare time!)

Cheers!  Hans

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