RE: CF-Spec - another call for opinions

["Neil Brookes" <nbrookes@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Not confusing at all.   But shouldn't the read on the second line be
delimited?

Sorry for the late response.
Neil Brookes

-----Original Message-----
From:   owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com] On
Behalf Of Silvio Santos
Sent:   Thursday, 12 August 1999 20:20
To:     'RPG400'
Subject:        RE: CF-Spec - another call for opinions

I agree absolutely with Buck Calabro.
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From:  Buck Calabro [SMTP:mcalabro@commsoft.net]
Sent:  Wednesday, August 11, 1999 8:33 PM
To:  'RPG400-L@midrange.com'
Subject:  RE: CF-Spec - another call for opinions

>2) Allow EVAL and CALLP to be omitted:

I would elect to have a special delimiter for any ambiguous variable names:
CF "read"=CountBooksRead(MyBookReportList)
CF if read < MINIMUMTOPASS
CF   FailReading(StudentID)
CF else
CF   PassReading(StudentID)
CF endif

SQL uses a similar way to distinguish a column name from a reserved word:
Select "GROUP" from MyTable group by "GROUP"

If you eventually add a new opcode, the program will not compile, but the
simple addition of quotes around the ambiguous variable will clear it up
without having to resort to nasty renaming of variables.  I don't generally
name my variables after reserved words anyway...

Buck Calabro
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