Re: Questions

[Jim Langston <jlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah, I could just image how the programmer who wrote this garbage would
then use Res.  Maybe move it into a DS that has a numeric overlay and then
do something like:

     if         Res > 10 ...

Man, some of the S36 code I have to maintain looks like this stuff sometimes.
*shudder*

Regards,

Jim Langston

Vasant Patel wrote:

> Right on Jon.....
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon.Paris@halinfo.it <Jon.Paris@halinfo.it>
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
> Date: Sunday, April 02, 2000 6:10 PM
> Subject: Re: Questions
>
> >
> >
> >The result in Res (if it were defined as 2A which is the smallest it should
> be)
> >will be '11'.  Why - well .....
> >
> >c         MOVEA  *ON  *IN
> >First the MOVEA will place '1' in every position in the *IN array - in
> other
> >words every indictor from 01 to 99 will be turned on.
> >
> >C         EVAL   RES=(VAR1>VAR2) + *IN35
> >
> >The expression VAR1 > VAR2 is true since VAR2 is treated as containing 'R'
> >followed by 49 blanks and 'RE' is higher up the collating sequence than 'R
> '.
> >That logical expression being true renders a '1' since a logical expression
> is
> >equivalent to an indicator which in RPG can be treated as a character
> field.
> >For the same reason *IN35 renders a '1' since it was turned on by the
> MOVEA.  So
> >'1' + '1' = '11' !!!!
> >
> >I can only hope that this is some kind of "lets see who can write the most
> >stupid obscure code in the world" contest because if I ever caught anyone
> >programming like this I'd fire them!
> >
> >
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