On Mon, 22 Jun 2015 07:38:39 -0400, Peter Relson wrote:
>I was curious why you used WAIT with ECBLIST when there was only one ECB.
>
I'm an advocate for uniform and continuous treatment of boundary cases. If I
were coding an interface to WAIT, I'd prefer not to need to treat "1" as a
special case. In fact, I'll even argue that for "event nmbr"=0 WAIT should
immediately and normally exit.
From the Macs Ref.:
event nmbr, event nmbr: Symbol, decimal digit, or register (0) or
(2) - (12).
Hmmm... does this imply that for the second form, "event nmbr" is limited to 9?
(But it does not prohibit 0?
In real life, not hypothetical, I was considerably irritated when I coded an
interface
to BPXWDYN(CONCAT ... ) and discovered that I must treat "1" as a special case.
-- gil
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