On 12 October 2017 at 08:03, Pieter Wiid <pw...@mweb.co.za> wrote: > Correction: > > DO WHILE,TROT,R14,R2,B'0001',1 > ENDDO > > Constructs where evaluation of the condition has a side effect (or completely relies on the side effect) are often more a convenience to the writer than to the reader. When working in a language that encourages it, I try to restrain myself to common constructs like testing a null pointer with the assignment. There's something to say for languages where it's left to the compiler to optimize that.
Rob
