Ah, that makes more sense than my first guess. --- Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313
/* Logic is an organized way of going wrong with confidence. -Kettering's Law, quoted in _The Number of the Beast_ by Robert A Heinlein. */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jeremy Nicoll Sent: Saturday, September 5, 2020 17:22 He meant defining TWO = 2 earlier. --- On Sat, 5 Sep 2020, at 21:21, Bob Bridges wrote: > Going back to the beginning, Gil: SQRT(X**TWO+Y**TWO) looks like > ~exactly~ the sort of thing that oughta be made a constant rather than > being coded more than once. That is, if X, Y and TWO all constants > themselves; and if they are not then this isn't an example of what > you're talking about. Did you accidentally reverse your meaning? Or > what am I missing? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
