Re: truncating a decimal value in /Free (Hijacked & Solved...the hijacked that is)

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On Tue, 22 Jan 2013, 13:27:31, John Yeung wrote:

It sounds like the battle you should be fighting is not whether
free-form is better than classic RPG, but whether fewer lines of code
is always better. There are simply some things that free-form cannot
achieve in as few lines as classic (especially if you count the
D-specs required for set-up, which I think is fair when counting lines
of code), so you just have to accept those particular battles as lost.
Hopefully, the war is about overall readability and maintainability.

John

I agree that sometimes less code is not better than more readable code. I
guess something I should have added to the original post was that even
though my example was just 3-bytes long, some of the strings are somewhat
long (up to 15 in a few cases).

But, the upshot is that now I can talk to my colleagues about basing
pointers!

Buzz