Re: MOVEA -> EVAL

[Jim Langston <jimlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ahhh, I remember why I hate it now.  It was a line of code I saw
one time in a basic I was supposed to maintain.

var1 = var2 = var3 = var4 = var5 = 0 = var6

What is Var1 going to be?

Ooops, not 0, unless var6 is not zero.  The last 0 = Var6 is
actually a comparison (same as saying Var1 = Var2... = 0 == Var6 in C).
In the language at the time, Var1 would either be -1 (all bits set)
or 0.  Since that day I hated it, when I was spending hours trying to
figure out why Var2 wasn't 0.

Regards,

Jim Langston

James David Rich wrote:
<SNIP> 
> 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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