Re: Ending Free RPG

Not "expects" - but certainly that is the way that RPG has worked for many moons.

Hundreds of lines away? Maybe - but I didn't think you were into writing monoliths <grin>

Besides - if I'm using RDi's outline I don't really care that much if it thousands of lines away.


Jon Paris

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On Mar 18, 2017, at 4:23 PM, Henrik Rützou <hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I think what Jon means that he expects any field used in a loop like the
folowing to be prefined
by declarations hundreds of statements from the actual code


for (zdii = 0; zdii < keyField.length; zdii++) {
for (var key in zdbRow) {
if (zdbRow.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
if (key == keyField[zdii]) {
if (keyField.length == 1) {
zdbKey = zdbRow[key]
} else {
zdbKey[zdii] = zdbRow[key]
}
break
}
}
}
}



On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 9:16 PM, John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 2:30 PM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

No - because RPG requires strongly typed data declarations - we did

aways with the crap about creating fields in the calcs years ago.

There's some variation on what the term "strong" typing means, but I'm
not sure I'm following. In what sense are D-spec declarations
(free-form or not) "strong" while C-spec ones are not?

I would say D-spec declarations provide more organization and are
arguably more readable than C-spec declarations, but both are examples
of *static* type declarations. Maybe you mean D-spec declarations
offer the capability to define *structured* data?

John Y.
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