Re: OMG MOVE sucks!

On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 2:16 PM Buck Calabro <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 9/19/2019 12:50 PM, John Yeung wrote:

If you find yourself dealing with a program which is chock full of
MOVE* and you need to add one line but you don't have time to
eradicate MOVE* from the whole program, in my book it is justified to
just use EVAL on that line you're adding and leave the rest of the
program as-is. Yeah, you're introducing an inconsistency in the style,
but at least you're not adding a new bug.

I think I had an easier time than most because of my background as an
assembly language hobbyist, but when working in one of these old
programs, I think of MOVE* as an overloaded operator and that keeps me
on the straight and narrow.

An easier time with what?

It sounds to me as though you're saying your assembly background helps
you use MOVE* "correctly".

My contention is that we're well past the time when there is such a
thing as using MOVE* correctly, other than *not* using it.

John Y.