RE: Hyphenated Op-Codes

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is the best argument I've seen.  I understand the desire to keep
backward compatibility.  Then again, what happened with everyone who had
the field name "eval" in their programs?  How big of an issue was this,
really?

But to stick a hyphen in every new opcode, that's just shatteringly ugly
to me.  I'll go with Larry's suggestion instead.  Make 'em all BIFs from
now on, and the percent sign rules.

Joe

> From: Larry Ducie
> 
> 
> We could have...
> 
> if %evalCorr(myFirstDS:mySecondDS) = true; // returns true of at least
one
> mapping occurs, or if the mapping completes successfully.
> 
> or...
> 
> if %evalCorr(myFirstDS:mySecondDS) > *zero; // returns the number of
> successful mappings that occur.
> 
> In either case we would still have the option of...
> 
> %evalCorr(myFirstDS:mySecondDS); // don't care what it returns, we
just
> want
> the side-effects.