Re: SV: C style assignment of variable values

[dhandy@xxxxxxxxxxx (Douglas Handy)]

Joel/Hans,

>You did too!! <vbg>
>
>I tend to remember things the way I want to, makes life more pleasant that
>way.  Sorry for taking your name in vain.

For the record, on May 11 Rob Berendt asked regarding CF specs:

>Will we be able to do multiple operations on a single line, seperating them
>with some
>sort of punctuation?  Then we can start having confusing code contests like
>the Unix
>people, or see who could make the prettiest pictures, for example:
>
>                           eval
>                   result=thisonebighonking
>             longvariablefromsomeonewholovestotype
>           +thissimplelittlevariable;eval thisother
>             field=thefieldwiththetotalsinit-
>                 thatfieldwiththeexceptions
>                           /234

And Joel responded:
>One of the reasons I'm for free form source is that I've been looking
>forward to the first Obfuscated RPG contest.  Maybe the prizes could be
>AS/400 t shirts and pizza coupons.

To which Hans replied on May 12:

>(ROTFL!)
>
>Sorry, no help to the "Obfuscated RPG" contest! We're still
>doing one statement per line max.  I thought the equivalent
>challenge in RPG is to use all of the predefined indicators
>in one program!
>
>Cheers!  Hans

So he never promised there wouldn't be one; only that he wouldn't help
the contest.  Although I'm sure there are some on this board that
think that CF itself may obfuscate the language.  (Hi Bob!)

Doug

PS - These quotes were from MIDRANGE-L, not RPG400-L.
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