Re: Strange result with exponents...

[Douglas Handy <dhandy1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

JT,

>|      C           MyMDY     MULT 10000.01  MyYMD

>This particular technique has been "best practices" 

I heartily disagree.  It was never a good practice.  It was both non-intuitive
and a bad performer, because it caused exception processing overhead.

>But I still shake my head at the thread on how
>to use /Free to add 1 to a counter.  

As of V5R2, use:

    counter++

Prior to that, use:

    counter = counter + 1

And please, no wars on the use of ++ being complicated or causing C programmers
trouble.  The only trouble there is when they use it within complex expressions
and don't consider the timing of when it occurs within the scope of the entire
statement.  Used by itself there is no issue with people expecting it occur at a
different time than it does.

Doug