Now that's an insightful historical perspective: From: Mark Johnson
> Being from the late 70's MCD crowd . . . I've concluded that people didn't > like typing EXTRACT with its required but useless trailing parameters. > Thus constantly typing > > PRINT EXTRACT(CUST.REC,1,0,0)"L#20":" ":EXTRACT(CUST.REC,2,0,0)"L#20" > > got to be a real pain in the neck. And if a field was to be accumulated, > it looked like this: > > CUST.REC=REPLACE(CUST.REC,5,0,0,EXTRACT(CUST.REC,5,0,0)+INV.AMT) > > . . .This was all before the <> characters for dynamic array . . . So the dimensioned arrays actually enhanced readability & maintainability before the "<>"-syntax was invented. > . . . IMHO (here come the flames) . . . (changing from "insightful" to "inciteful", eh?) Thanks Mark, cds ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
