Re: Clever UNIX/C Constructs

Be careful there, young man!  (whoops!)

Otherwise, agreed:  Add functions that enable the language to things it
currently can't (easily) do.

Dan Bale
IT - AS/400
Handleman Company
248-362-4400  Ext. 4952

-------------------------- Original Message --------------------------
Those were the old tube-machines....right?

I am all for new functions, etc...  But I do not like adding redundancy...
So far I have not seen any reason to add something like +=.  The existing
functionality is just as easy, and IMO more readable anyhow...

If we are going to add functions, lets get some better API-wrapper
functionality...  Some programmable web-centric stuff (tcp, udp, ports,
etc)...  You name it...

I would rather expand with new functionality, not rehash the old stuff....



----- Original Message -----
From: <D.BALE@handleman.com>
To: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 11:31 AM
Subject: RE: Clever UNIX/C Constructs


> Guys, I'm really NOT THAT OLD, but I do recall having to modify an RPG
(I?)
> program on a mainframe back in the early- to mid- 80's, just after I
started
> on a S/34, and remember being surprised that the compiler flagged an error
on
> an ADD statement because factor 1 was not specified.
>
> Also, I'll have to check to see if I still have the textbooks, but I'm
pretty
> sure factor 1 was not required for the ADD, SUB, MULT, DIV opcodes even in
RPG
> 1.5 on an IBM 1130 (yes, punch cards!) or in RPG-II on a S/3.
>
> Dan Bale
> IT - AS/400
> Handleman Company
> 248-362-4400  Ext. 4952
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