Re: SV: C style assignment of variable values

[Jim Langston <jlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In OOPs sometimes it's the only way to do things.  Because of how
it works, unless you want to code a tone of temporary variables and
then use them, which is just as bad.

I guess the whole question becomes, do we really want RPG to
do OOPs?  I think it would be a good thing, but some may not agree.

Regards,

Jim Langston

Joel Fritz wrote:

> 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.

<SNIP> to save the lives of a few million electrons.

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