RE: Niftiest thing(s) you have done in RPG ILE or /FREE

<snip>But now I do it all the time. I've never once thought that it might
irritate my colleagues. Is this kind of syntax custIsVld = (custNbr > 0);
used in other languages? What happens if custIsVld is already *on?</snip>

Yes it's used in other languages. Can even get more complicated than that
using switches.

Doesn't matter what the value of it is. It will get re-evaluated and set to
the new condition.

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rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 01/07/2009 08:19:15 AM:

Hi Aaron,

My first thought was WAOOUWW! I must do that.

But then I realised that anyone else in our shop reading that would
not understand.

Instead of Short way, maybe you should call it the lazy way.

I also had a mental block at first with this :

/FREE
i += 1;
/END-FREE

Instead of
/FREE
i = i + 1;
/END-FREE

But now I do it all the time. I've never once thought that it might
irritate my colleagues. Is this kind of syntax custIsVld = (custNbr

0); used in other languages? What happens if custIsVld is already *on?

-----Message d'origine-----
De : rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-
bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] De la part de Aaron Bartell
Envoyé : mercredi 7 janvier 2009 14:03
À : RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Objet : Re: Niftiest thing(s) you have done in RPG ILE or /FREE

I wonder if you changed the question to be more pointed towards
certain concepts if you would get more responses. For example, if
you asked "what are some cool things you can do in one line of code"
then I would think back to something I learned early on that some
programmers still don't know you can do:

Long way...

D custIsVld s n
D custNbr s 10 0
/free
if custNbr > 0;
custIsVld = *on;
else;
custIsVld = *off;
endif;
/end-free


Short way...

D custIsVld s n
D custNbr s 10 0
/free
custIsVld = (custNbr > 0);
/end-free


Every time I get involved with a project with another
developer/customer I learn a bunch of tidbits that make my code
better, compiling easier, or best practices better. The people on
this list could write a book on all those cool things, but its all
in how to ask the question.

Does the above qualify as at least a smaller nifty thing? :-)

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com


Adam West wrote:

I haven't seen too much as yet.

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