RE: MOVEA -> EVAL

["Joe Giusto II \(E-mail\)" <juicenetdps@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If memory serves me correctly, COBOL had a feature to assign multiple
variables the same value.  But it has been a number of years since I've seen
any COBOL code.



Joe Giusto II
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 -----Original Message-----
From:   owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com]  On
Behalf Of James David Rich
Sent:   Monday, June 18, 2001 4:43 PM
To:     RPG400-L@midrange.com
Subject:        Re: MOVEA -> EVAL

On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Jim Langston wrote:
>
> 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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