Re: %lookup

[Simon Coulter <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday, April 19, 2004, at 08:09  AM, M. Lazarus wrote:

>  I strongly agree.  But there are actually an additional 5 forms of 
> lookup - %TLOOKUPxx!  I see no reason that we (or the compiler) needed 
> that variation.

Oh, so special handling for tables (which probably shouldn't be allowed 
in free-form). Like I said "Where will it end?" -- it obviously isn't 
ending!

Perhaps this is like the lines-of-code measure? If your productivity is 
measured by lines-of-code you write lots of code. Perhaps the RPG team 
is measured on number of 'new' functions?

Or perhaps it is a marketing requirement: VRMxyz has 10 new built-in 
functions! when it really has only two (with five variants each). Bah!

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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