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  3. March 2010

Re: More on RPG style

Hmmm... SQL uses <>, doesn't it? As does BASIC, including Visual Basic (at least, it did back when I coded in it) as well as CL, right?

At the time that the decision to use <> over != was made, I don't think anyone realized how popular languages like Java, C# and PHP would make the != syntax. At the time, there were far more RPG programmers using languages like VB, SQL and CL than there were RPG programmers using C/C++. (And Java, PHP, C#, et al didn't yet exist)


On 3/3/2010 12:19 PM, Bryce Martin wrote:
I prefer the C style of != personally. Since almost every other language
I've code in it was !=. RPG is the first one I've seen that is<> which
feels very strange when first starting out coming from C/C++ background.
It makes the code less readable for someone not versed in the language,
maybe some people don't care in that case, but I think its nice to play
well with others :)

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