Re: Questions

["L. S. Russell" <leslier@xxxxxxxxxx>]

What is your quest?


eric.delong@pmsi-services.com wrote:
> 
>      oops.... <g> Oh yeah, the old hermit was the one who sent them to
>      the bridge-keeper... Go on, ask your questions. I'm not afraid!
> 
>      aaahhhhhhh.......
> 
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> Subject: Re: Questions
> Author:  <RPG400-L@midrange.com> at INET_WACO
> Date:    4/3/00 12:12 PM
> 
> That quote should be attributed to Tim the Wizard.
> 
> eric.delong@pmsi-services.com wrote:
> >
> >      "Just a cute lit'le bunny now, eh? Look at th' bones!" -Old Hermit
> >      ;)
> >
> >      eric.delong@pmsi-services.com
> >
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> _________________________________ > Subject: RE: Questions
> > Author:  <RPG400-L@midrange.com> at INET_WACO
> > Date:    4/3/00 8:48 AM
> >
> > When I compiled and ran it. I got a message on my CRT saying " Devil
> > Bunnies, Devil Bunnies". <VBG>
> >
> > Bruce Collins
> > Twitchell Corporation
> > bacollins@twitchellcorp.com
> >
> > "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who do!"
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com]On
> > Behalf Of Jon.Paris@halinfo.it
> > Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2000 3:32 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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