From: "Bob Bridges" <robhbrid...@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, September 07, 2020 8:29 AM
To tell you the truth, I haven't written for a compiler in long enough that I don't have any idea which ones do what. I wouldn't trust REXX, CLIST or VBA to do it; I try to assume the worst, and make such things explicit. Actually I might not trust a compiler to do it, either, even if I knew that you're right. I'm just not very trusting about such things. (And it's not ~very~ obfuscatory. In real life I'd include a comment, something like this: SphereVolConst=4/3*3.14159E0 /* for calculating the volume of a sphere inside the loop */
Why do that, when the compiler will probably do it for you, or, if it doesn't, it will evaluate the constant part at compilation time -- which is effectively the same thing.
That looks like a lot of documentation, to some programmers. But the older I get, the more comments I write into even fairly simple programs.)
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