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  • Subject: RE: SV: C style assignment of variable values
  • From: boldt@xxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 08:43:15 -0400



Joel wrote:
>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.

Hey!  I never made that promise!

(I think I said something like we'd try not to make it too easy to
write obfuscated code in RPG.)

Cheers!  Hans

Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com


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