RE: %EOF, %FOUND and the infamous Dow loop

["jt" <jt@xxxxxx>]

Doug,

Sorry, gotta agree with Joe on this one.

jt



| -----Original Message-----
| Behalf Of Douglas Handy
| Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 5:50 PM

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|
| The basic problem is that the BIF's are *functions*, not data values.  The
| debugger can display the value of any variable, *INxx or
| otherwise, but cannot
| display the value of any function, %BIF or otherwise.
|

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| The times I have used it and needed to debug, single stepping
| works for me.

Not as good.

|
| How is it that not being able to display the result of a BIF is
| "taking away
| functionality"?

I think Joe's saying that the %BIF is less effective than an indicator.

I would think it WOULD take only a couple hours.  They change the
implementation of the %BIF to us a memory location instead of a register, if
it's not already that way.

You allow both the language and the debugger:  EVAL %BIF = *ON.  If these
are already stored in memory locations (ie variables) then it's just a
matter of assigning a value to a named variable.


I'll be glad to stand corrected.  But I'd still like to see this fixed.
It's broke, IMHO, because the %BIF should be at least as effective as *IN,
if they want you to go towards eliminating indicators.

jt