Re: MOVEA -> EVAL

[Jim Langston <jimlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oh, please no!  I had to maintain that type of code way back
when in QuickBasic.  I don't know why, but that code just doesn't
feel "right" to me.  I think because I've come across so many
compilers that don't follow the right to left rule.  Some do left 
to right, in which case you would get different results.

I have always thought, though, that there should be some method
of setting/clearing/initialing more than one variable at a time
in languages, but I don't think that's the answer.

Maybe something like:
C                 Eval    Inz(*Off, *IN01, *IN02, *IN03, *IN04, *IN05)
would be nice, and would be very understandable and self explanatory.
But, the closest I've ever seen is the QuickBasic's method that you 
show here.

Regards,

Jim Langston

Me transmitte sursum, Caledoni!

James David Rich wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Alan Addison wrote:
> 
> > them.   Some subfiles programs of mine have had to use up to 4 indicators
> > per field (RI, PC, PR, ND) and twenty or more Eval *INxx = *OFF  takes a lot
> > of space.
> 
> How about:
> 
> eval *inaa = *inbb = *incc = *indd = *inee = ... = *off
> 
> Or maybe this can't be done in RPG?
> 
> James Rich
> james@eaerich.com
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