Re: Preventing a divide by zero error

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I took it from Clay's response that the book was clear .   "... that 
section is there just in case you run into those functions later on. ... 
." In 1998 that was highly likely.

Is a "Sorcerer's guide" a better choice for Clay to learn?  Or is that 
aimed at intermediate & advanced students?

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg245402.pdf



On 6/22/2013 5:12 PM, Jon Paris wrote:
> Clay - that represents a very old (very, very old) version of the RPG IV language and frankly you are doing yourself no favours using that version to teach yourself the language. Even if a lot of programmers are still writing code like it was 1998.
>
> Try and find a more up-to-date version - it will be worth the effort.
>
>
> On 2013-06-22, at 10:07 AM, Clay B Carley <cbc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hi Vern and Jon,
> >
> > I don't see a version or edition on this book, but it is dated 1998.
> >
> > In chapter 5, they talk about "traditional RPG arithmetic operations",
> > but also say that section is there just in case you run into those
> > functions later on.
> >
> > Thanks again to everyone who replied!
> >
> > Clay Carley