RE: C style assignment of variable values

Don't forget

eval      c++
!!!

Bradley V. Stone
Taylor Corporation - OASIS Programmer/Analyst   
bvstone@taylorcorp.com



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric N. Wilson [mailto:doulos1@home.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 1999 1:19 PM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: C style assignment of variable values
> 
> 
> Hans and Company,
> 
> Would it be possible to make the following expression valid in future
> versions of the compiler???
> 
> EVAL    C_NumRecs = C_MailFlags = C_UserFlags = 0
> 
> And no I do not need to put a statement terminator on the end 
> of that :-)
> 
> It seems that evaluation of this sort of expression should be 
> easy when
> evaluated from right to left (like C does). Not a big thing 
> but I like to do
> that sort of thing to reduce initializations to a small block 
> of code. And
> yes I know that there are a million and one ways to achieve 
> the same goal,
> Named datastructure with initializations etc... I just find 
> the above to be
> readable and love to know what I am initializing near the 
> code that I am
> working with.
> 
> Thanks
> Eric
> ______________________________________________________________
> Eric N. Wilson
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