Re: MOVEA -> EVAL

[James David Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Jim Langston wrote:

> 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

QuickBasic?  What the heck is QuickBasic?

> 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.

var1 = var2 = var3 = ... = varn = value

is common across C, C++, java, bash, perl, blah blah.  You mean there are
moronic compilers that don't get this right?

James Rich
james@eaerich.com

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