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

| -----Original Message-----
| Behalf Of Joe Pluta
| Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 2:25 AM

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|
| Well, I outlined how it affects me.  Evidently since it doesn't
| affect you,
| then it's inconsequential.  I think that's a rather narrow view, but hey,
| that's me.  But this is a lot of bandwidth for what seems to be
| essentially
| an unresolvable difference in viewpoint, so I suspect this is the
| right time
| to let the conversation go.

Well, there certainly ARE different strokes for different folks.

I thought the point was more about whether the compiler-developers could be
convinced of the need, rather than anyone else.

The question is how long would it take.  They probably don't test the way I
do.  (I hold a thumb up at arms length, close one eye, and take a look to
see if the results look reasonable...;-)  In fact, I recall a post (from
Barbara, I think) about how long it would take to do a relatively simple
modification.

So it would probably take more than a couple hours, including testing and
docs.


But here's the need...  I almost NEVER run a program, anymore, unless it's
in debug.  VERY rarely.  I frequently deal in the nastiest problems.  Which
may, or may not, be in code I wrote (hopefully not).  Even in code I'm
writing from scratch, I watch the thing run.  I frequently single-step, as a
form of desk-checking (which I'm sure is a lost art).

Because I'd like to get the thing finished in one or two runs...  (Of
course, don't always do that.)


Just saw your post, Joe, about reverting back to SETLL/READE...

I forget now...  What what the *advantage* of not using the indicators...?


jt