Re: SV: C style assignment of variable values -- RPG400-L

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Hans said;
> Actually, in C, they may seem similar, but "A+=1" is not the
> same as "A=A+1".
> Consider the statements:

> 1)  arr[proc()] += 1;
> 2)  arr[proc()] = arr[proc()] + 1

> proc is called once in the first, but twice in the second.
> Cheers!  Hans



Isn't that just intuitively obvious to an RPG programmer?

John Carr

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