Re: How about in INC opcode

[boldt@xxxxxxxxxx]

L.S. wrote:
>Yes, farther along in the thread we talk about making RPG more perlish,
>while I think perls object syntax is not only weak but unintuative it
>beats nothing. When I say unintuative I mean non standard because perl
>uses the dot operator to cat strings together it has to have another
>operator to show object relation it is -> . So in perl it would be
>object->property or object->method.
>
>If RPG does implement objects lets keep it like Java Script
>object.property,
>it makes it much easier move from language to language.


And someone used to C++ or Perl programming could argue that
Java and JavaScript are non-standard and weak and unintuitive
since they use . instead of -> when dereferencing objects.
And a Smalltalk programmer would ask:  What are these silly
non-standard . and -> symbols anyways?

The fact is that those of us who use multiple programming
languages must deal with different syntaxes.  But it's really
no big deal - getting past a different syntax is really the
least of your worries when learning a new language.

Cheers!  Hans

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


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