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  3. October 2002

Re: XFOOT

Richard B Baird wrote:

First of all, I would advise against xfooting an entire array into one of
it's elements - sloppy and scary, and cause for great confusion to anyone
who might try to change the program after you.

In RPG III at least (I haven't checked RPG IV yet), that coding is
indeed safe. A compiler-generated temp is used to accumulate the
total, which is then assigned to the target. (I do agree it's not
the best style.)

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