RE: SV: C style assignment of variable values

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well...murder, rape, and assault are common in the US and many other
countries. I find them hard to get used to. <vbg>

It's true, you can do all sorts of nesting and have executable stuff on both
sides of an assignment operator in several languages (RPG too.)  My only
question is how much do you want to think to understand one line of code?
I'm old and lazy and want to be able to go back to what I wrote a couple of
weeks ago and still understand it.   

Hans has promised us there will never be an obfuscated RPG contest.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Langston [mailto:jlangston@conexfreight.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 08, 1999 12:40 PM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: SV: C style assignment of variable values
> 
> 
> Actually, that type of call is done quite a bit in other 
> languages besides
> C, you can do the same thing in VBasic and Delphi just to 
> name 2. After
> you see it a while, you get quite used to it and it becomes 
> easy to understand.
> 
> It can get really complicated, though, when you get stuff like:
> 
> arr[proc(newarr[arrval(somefield.age[counter])])].somesub[counter]
> 
> and worst.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jim Langston
> 
> Joel Fritz wrote:
> 
> > 
> *******************RANT***************************************
> **************
> > *********************
> > The function call used as an array index in Hans' example 
> is the sort of
> > thing that has given C and C++ a bad name.  It's 
> syntactically legal, but so
> > what.  C's potential for terseness gives people who are 
> smart enough to know
> > better a chance to demonstrate how clever they are at 
> others' expense.
> > Sometimes the cryptic expression gives a performance 
> advantage, sometimes it
> > doesn't.  Especially with today's hardware, saving a clock 
> cycle or two at
> > the expense of clarity isn't worth it unless you do it 
> hundreds of thousands
> > of times every time the program runs.
> >
> > Ahh, I feel much better now. <g>
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: pcunnane@learningco.com [mailto:pcunnane@learningco.com]
> > > Sent: Friday, October 08, 1999 12:05 PM
> > > To: RPG400-L
> > > Subject: Re[2]: SV: C style assignment of variable values
> > >
> > >
> > >      I would hope so...
> > >
> > >      :)
> > >
> > >      ____________
> > >      Paul Cunnane
> > >      The Learning Company
> > >
> > >
> > > ______________________________ Reply Separator
> > > _________________________________
> > > Subject: Re: SV: C style assignment of variable values
> > > Author:  John P Carr <jpcarr@tredegar.com> at InterNet
> > > Date:    08/10/99 07:52
> > >
> > >
> > > > 1)  arr[proc()] += 1;
> > > > 2)  arr[proc()] = arr[proc()] + 1
> > >
> > > > proc is called once in the first, but twice in the second.
> > >
> > > Isn't that just intuitively obvious to an RPG programmer?
> > >
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