RE: Questions

The sad thing is that there's plenty of code around that is, in spirit, just
like this example.  I've had to modify it.  Some of it was written by former
employees who were highly regarded.  I'm sure I'm not the only one who's
seen stuff like this.  

Glad you qualified your answer with the assumption that the result field was
defined as two positions. <g>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon.Paris@halinfo.it [mailto:Jon.Paris@halinfo.it]
> Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2000 1:32 PM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> 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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