Re: *Blanks and *Blank

["Carl Galgano" <cgalgano@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm glad you didn't throw in the ever popular (in the South at least)
All of you'lls.
Go figure?
Carl Galgano
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-----Original Message-----
From: Hans Boldt <boldt@ca.ibm.com>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Tuesday, October 20, 1998 9:42 AM
Subject: RE: *Blanks and *Blank


|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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